Ellen Riojas Clark is a professor emerita at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research focuses on ethnic and cultural identity and cultural studies. She has received three National Endowment for the Humanities grants and was cultural director for the PBS program Maya and Miguel. She is the executive producer of the Latino Artist Speaks: Exploring Who I Am series, the coauthor of Multicultural Literature for Latino Children: Their Words, Their Worlds, and the coeditor of Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico. She lives in San Antonio.