"Lorena Garcia is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity (New York University Press, 2012), which received the 2013 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class." You can read more about Lorena Garcia's teaching, research and writing here or the link below.