Adela de la Torre

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Adela de la Torre
11th President of San Diego State University
Assumed office
June 2018
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Born San Francisco Bay Area
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (BA, MA, PhD)

Adela de la Torre is an American professor and university administrator. [1] She has served as the ninth president of San Diego State University in San Diego, California, since 2018. She is the first woman to serve in the role. [2] [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Adela de la Torre was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. [5] Her grandparents were immigrants from Mexico, and her mother was a public school teacher. De la Torre attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received bachelor's and master's degrees in the political economy of natural resources, as well as a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics in 1982. [6]

Career

De la Torre was a professor at California State University, Long Beach and at the University of Arizona, where she was director of the Mexican-American Studies Center and also served as director of the Hispanic Center of Excellence for the University of Arizona College of Medicine. [6] [7] [8] She later worked at University of California, Davis, where she served as professor and chair of the Department of Chicana/o studies, [9] director of the Center for Transnational Health, and vice chancellor for student affairs. [10] [11] [12] De la Torre was named the president of San Diego State University on January 31, 2018, [2] and assumed the presidency in June 2018. [6]

She writes and speaks about the importance of helping students from underprivileged backgrounds with issues related to student debt. [13] She is also a co-editor of Speaking from the Body: Latinas on Health and Culture, a collection of personal reflections on health care experiences from Latina patients or their family caregivers or friends, combined with professional analysis of the narratives with a discussion of Latina health issues and policy recommendations.

Her primary fields of research include childhood obesity, binational health, science and educational disparities [14] and interventions for Chicana/o Latina/o students. [15] She is a founding member and former President of the American Society of Hispanic Economists. The society honored her with its biennial Academic Achievement Award in 2016.

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