Ana Cornide is an Associate Professor of Practice at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. As the director of the Critical Service Learning and Community Outreach Programs, she integrates experiential learning opportunities for students to focus on social entrepreneurship, leadership, and community-based projects. Ana's outreach work promotes development through the arts and humanities to overcome social barriers. Her current research approaches the borderlands not only through social movements but through ephemeral modes of seeing, living, exchanging outside of the border imperialist gaze. She explores literature, performance art and film that challenge the inequity of visual rights by altering, queering, and manipulating dominant modes of border representation. In Spring 2016, Ana was the recipient of the Richard Ruiz Diversity Leadership Faculty Award. In Spring 2017, Ana received the College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award, and in Fall 2021, she received the College of Humanities Chatfield Impact Award.