This week, the University said it would do away with crowning a king and queen and instead select three “royals,” regardless of gender, from a single pool of finalists.
Lori Flores' research and writing focus on Latino life, labor, and politics, particularly when it comes to Mexican Americans, immigration, the US-Mexico border region, and California. She is an expert on the Bracero Program and Mexican guestworkers, the Farmworker rights movement both before and after Cesar Chavez, undocumented immigration, and the working and social relationships between different groups of Latinos. Her other interests are gender, civil rights, and global borderlands history.