Celia Herrera Rodriguez (born November 26, 1952, in Sacramento, California[1]) is an American educator, painter, and performance and installation artist.
[3] She has taught programs including Chicano Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for seventeen years.
[4] She has also been an adjunct professor in the Diversity Studies program at California College for the Arts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Herrera Rodriguez is also the co-founder and co-director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Practice at UCSB, where she teaches Chicana[x] Art History and Studio Practice in the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies.
[9] Her series of artworks was published in 2011, in a collection of essays by Cherrie Moraga: “Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, Writing 2000- 2010".