Marcia Ochoa
Marcia Ochoa is a United States-based professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the co-founder of El/La Para TransLatinas and is credited with popularizing the term "translatina."Life
Ochoa moved to San Francisco in 1994. She co-founded El/La Para TransLatinas in 2006 in San Francisco, California.Career
Ochoa completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in Anthropology in 2005. She began teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012, where she chairs the Feminist Studies department. She is also a professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Latin American & Latino Studies, and Film and Digital Media.
She published her first book based on her dissertation, Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela, in 2014 through Duke University Press. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. That same year, she edited the Transgender Studies Quarterly issue "Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary". She is currently the editor of.
Following the publication of Queen for a Day, Ochoa's work focused on early colonial violence in Latin America.
