ABOUT DR. BLANCA
About the Author
Blanca Campa earned her Ph.D. from New Mexico State University and is a Professor of Educational Psychology at El Paso Community College. She teaches a first-year college experience course and has been writing about resilience for the past 15 years.
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Dr. Blanca is an educator, writer, and keynote speaker. She was born and raised in the modest colonia of Salvarcar, Chihuahua in the hills overlooking Ciudad Juárez. When she was still a child, her family immigrated to El Paso, Texas where she attended public schools, became fluent in English, and graduated from high school. Her studies at El Paso Community College prepared her for transfer to the University of Texas at El Paso. She has served as an elementary school teacher, high school counselor, college counselor, and professor.
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Dr. Blanca exemplifies the resilience of Latino community college students in the United States. Her research and writing is directly connected to her teaching, counseling, and mentoring. Her dissertation, a qualitative study of Mexican American community college students, was a unique blend of counseling and critical feminist theory focusing on critical resilience. Driving her work is the hope that her findings will assist her and other community college faculty to interact more effectively with students and help more Mexican Americans succeed in their academic studies. Dr. Blanca has published works in the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, the Community College Journal of Research and Practice, and the Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology. Her work on resilience adds a unique perspective to this growing field.