Alexis Canelo
Alexis Canelo is a transfer student from Los Angeles Pierce College majoring in History at UCLA. She was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. She is interested in how California’s often unacknowledged past continues to influence its present politics and culture. At the forefront of her research is the 1892 lynching of Francisco Torres in Santa Ana, California. She is expanding on the scholarship of Southern California, Latinx identity, labor, class, and racial violence through analyzing archived newspaper articles surrounding the Torres case.
Alexis Canelo is a transfer student from Los Angeles Pierce College majoring in History at UCLA. She was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. She is interested in how California’s often unacknowledged past continues to influence its present politics and culture. At the forefront of her research is the 1892 lynching of Francisco Torres in Santa Ana, California. She is expanding on the scholarship of Southern California, Latinx identity, labor, class, and racial violence through analyzing archived newspaper articles surrounding the Torres case.