A full-time faculty lecturer for California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo’s new 2+2 Sociology Program, Dr. Lata Murti is the founder of Climbing Vine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Consulting, Editing, and Tutoring, in addition to a co-facilitator for Cultural Creations Collaborative LLC. She serves as a co-editor for McGraw Hill’s Sociology in the News blog and a State Board Director focused on DEI for AAUW (American Association of University Women)-California.
An active member of several organizations in North Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County, Lata is dedicated to documenting and elevating the lived experiences of immigrant and ethnic communities as well as communities of color on the Central Coast. Her interviews with Japanese-American women for Our Roots-Our Routes are the inspiration for a book chapter tentatively titled “Sisters, Mothers, or Grandmothers?: Experiential Affinities among Second-Generation Asian American Women” to be published in a forthcoming book on women of color and intersectional communities. On the fourth Thursday of every month, you can hear Dr. Murti on KCBX public radio’s Central Coast Voices, for which she is one of four hosts–and through which she conducted some of the interviews shared here, in this archive.