Laura Tubelle de González is Professor of Anthropology and the faculty Environmental Sustainability Coordinator at San Diego Miramar College in Southern California. She has taught Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, and the Cultures of Mexico courses for 15 years. She specializes in Cultural Anthropology, having done ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and India. She is also a past-president of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges, a section of the American Anthropological Association that focuses on teaching anthropology.