Natalia Molina
Natalia Molina is a distinguished professor of American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and a MacArthur Foundation award winner and the author of the recently released A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press, 2022) and several other acclaimed works. She recently joined The Huntington's Board of Governors.
Publications
The hidden history of the Nayarit, a neighborhood restaurant that nourished its community of Mexican immigrants with a sense of belonging as they made their own places in Los Angeles.
Frontiers
Natalia Molina grew up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park and spent evenings at the Mexican restaurant her mother owned, the Nayarit, a local landmark that her grandmother founded in 1951.