Dr. Corona Aguilar has taught courses in race, gender, and sexuality studies, prison studies, social justice, religious studies, and trans studies at the college-level. In addition to teaching within the university, Itzel is also a community educator who has taught ESL, language justice, and reproductive care in VA, GA, DC, TX, NY, NJ, and Mexico City. For Corona Aguilar, critical thought and expanding the boundaries of the political imaginary are central pedagogy, so she continuously encourages her students to imagine a world without prisons and to consider what projects might facilitate justice in a transformative sense. Part of her pedagogical training requires that she present course concepts to students through various mediums such as art, film and performance that nurture critical thinking through diverse methods. This is a necessary multidisciplinary engagement with the prison as site of cultural production, for example through films such as Free Cece! and the written and visual productions of detained migrants, which illustrate the relationship between the prison, trans/gender and queer politics.

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