Alma Itzé Flores is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.  Her research interests are rooted in Chicana/Latina feminist theory and critical race-gendered epistemologies.  In the spring of 2012 she was fortunate to take a class with Ric Salinas on theatre as pedagogy.  Her monologue titled, Para mi Mamá, is the origin for her dissertation research on Chicana mother-daughter pedagogies.  She is the daughter of immigrant parents and a first-generation college student.