Mother’s Day. Father’s Day. Two days when there is a frenzy of gilt- and guilt-giving in the U.S. for parenting well done or aspiring to be. Thinking about the ways […]
Author: Maria Ochoa
María Ochoa is a writer whose most recent books include Russell City: Images of America a pictorial history about a rural, San Francisco Bay Area community and Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence, a collection of writing and visual art that she co-edited with Dr. Barbara K. Ige, which includes work by more than 50 women and girls from around the world. An earlier book of hers is Creative Collectives: Chicana Painters Working in Community. She is also the author of numerous articles and essays.
In recognition for her contributions to the arts, the California State Assembly honored her as a Woman of the Year in 1999. Other awards include an artists’ grant from the Creative Work Fund, two Ford Foundation research fellowships, a National Women’s Studies Association prize for her dissertation, and a residency with the UC Humanities Research Institute.
Ochoa teaches at San José State University in the Department of Social Science, as well as with Women’s Studies program and the Department of Mexican American Studies. She lives with husband Hayward Mayor Mike Sweeney and four cat family members in a fifty-year old home that increasingly requires repair.