Natalia Molina is a historian, author, and cultural commentator whose work explores race, place, and belonging in America. A Distinguished Professor at USC, she serves as Vice President and President-Elect of the Organization of American Historians. Her books include How Race Is Made in America, Fit to Be Citizens?, and A Place at the Nayarit, which was a James Beard Award finalist and named an LA Times “essential Los Angeles book." She was a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. At Mesa, Natalia worked on her book, Racial Assimilation: Latinx and the Limits of Belonging, which explores Latinx racial assimilation through a generational and historical lens. You can learn more about Natalia here.