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Johnathon Vargas

Doctoral Candidate, Communication, UC San Diego

Johnathon Vargas

   Johnathon (he/they) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at UC San Diego. Their dissertation research focuses on how activists, in what is called San Diego and Tijuana, organize discursive histories, actions and material conditions into interpretive frameworks for understanding connections between border and immigration struggles along the Mexico / U.S. bordered-lands to Occupied Palestine. They hold a B.A. in International and Global Studies from Portland State University. Johnathon can be found in varied community spaces within San Diego participating or facilitating, setting up and tearing down, reading groups, art installations, and organizing meetings oriented around collective liberation and the environmental context of the bordered Kumeyaay land.