Joaquín Lara Midkiff is a Dean's Fellow in the Department of History at Stanford University. His scholarship focuses on the social and labor movements of Indigenous communities from Mexico and Central America in the United States during the twentieth century. His earlier work centered on social histories of Oregon’s migrant Indigenous Mexican communities in the post-IRCA period.

He has contributed essays in Truthout, The Oregonian, Statesman Journal, and New Haven Register, among others. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Future Lives in Our Bodies (Abalone Mountain Press) and Crab Creek Review.

Joaquín comes from a family of working-class folks from Oklahoma, northern California, and Nahua farmworkers from Guerrero’s cohuixca. He has served on public and non-profit boards, including Cherriots (Salem Area Mass Transit), the Oregon Disabilities Commission, and PCUN, Oregon’s farmworker union.

He earned his B.A. from Yale University.