Vera Kennedy

Background

About Vera Kennedy

I am a tenured faculty at West Hills College Lemoore and Lecturer at Fresno State. My publications include The Influence of Cultural Capital on Hispanic Student College Graduation Rates (2012), Critical Thinking about Social Problems (2017), Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life (2018), A Career in Sociology (2020), and Our Lives: An Ethnic Studies Primer (2022). I most recently served as faculty for the 2021 American Association of Colleges & Universities Institute on Open Educational Resources and recently completed appointments as the Distance Education Program Coordinator & Pedagogical Coach at West Hills College Lemoore (2020-21) and OER Fellow at Fresno State (2019). Before teaching full-time, I was the Juvenile Justice Services Coordinator for the Fresno Superior Court and assisted in the establishment and facilitation of the Juvenile Mental Health Court for Fresno County. I served on the Board of Directors for Comprehensive Youth Services, a child abuse prevention agency, and was appointed by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors to serve on the Fresno County Foster Care Oversight Committee for six years.