Description: My name is Nina (9-uh) Flores and I am proud to be a lifelong product of the California public education system, from K-12 in Long Beach Unified, to BA and MA degrees at CSULB, an MA at San Diego State, and my PhD in urban planning from UCLA. The CSU is truly the People's University…
Nina M. Flores, PhD is an educator whose interdisciplinary work is influenced by her graduate training in political science, education, and urban planning. She is an Assistant Professor with the Social & Cultural Analysis of Education (SCAE) graduate program at Long Beach State where she approaches education by examining campuses as communities, and looking at connections between education, power, and justice. She has also taught in the UCLA Urban Planning department, and with the department of Chicano/Lati
Dr. Flores has a PhD in Urban Planning from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, where she specialized in community development with research focused on gender, justice, and cities. In her dissertation , titled “Taking Back the Streets: Resisting #StreetHarassment in a New Era of (Virtual) Public Space”, she analyzed how social media is used to document and share experiences in public space; examined connections between on-line and on-the-ground resistance; and explored how community planners and orga
For many years Dr. Flores worked as a jury consultant and a political messaging strategist. During that time she conducted pre-trial focus group research for legal cases in more than 30 states. She is the former managing editor of Critical Planning Journal , and her public writing has been featured in the Washington Post , Huffington Post , Ms. Magazine Blog , YES! Magazine , Progressive Planning Magazine , and other outlets where she offers critical analyses and ideas for action on topics including g