Latina Leadership Literature
Fuerza, Cambios e Identidad: Exploring the Impact of the MANA de San Diego Latina Success Leadership Program
Padilla, Cristina. Chicana/Latina Studies: Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). Spring 2023.
Latinidad and Agency of Voice: Latina Leader Identity Development
Padilla, Cristina. Latinidad and Agency of Voice: Latina Leader Identity Development. University of San Diego | Dissertations 943. 2022.
Latina Leadership Development: Lessons from the Creation and Facilitation of a Game-Based Workshop
Padilla, Cristina. Latina leadership development: Lessons from the creation and facilitation of a game-based workshop. Consulting Psychology Journal | Vol. 74 No. 2 pp. 146–161. 2022.
Padilla, MA, Cristina. The Community College Presidency Demystified: Creating a Pipeline of Latino Leaders. Journal of Transformative Leadership and Policy Studies | Vol. 9 No. 1: pp. 13-27. Transforming Leadership in Education. 2020.
The Community College Presidency Demystified: Creating a Pipeline of Latino Leaders
Games for Social Justice Education
Padilla, Cristina. Level up: Games for socially just leadership education. Wiley Online Library. (2022).
Latino Leadership at Work: Embracing Cultural Heritage to Accelerate Professional Growth
Padilla, Cristina. Latino Leadership at Work: Embracing Cultural Heritage to Accelerate Professional Growth. ExecOnline. 2022.
An Ecological Approach to Latina Leadership Disparities in the U.S.
Padilla, Cristina. An Ecological Approach to Latina Leadership Disparities in the U.S. LinkedIn. 2018.
What Latinas can Learn about Personal Branding from Frida Kahlo
Padilla, Cristina. What Latinas can Learn about Personal Branding from Frida Kahlo. LinkedIn. 2017.
Identity, like a river, is always changing, always in transition, always in nepantla. Like the river downstream, you're not the same person you were upstream. You begin to define yourself in terms of who you are becoming, not who you have been.
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza