Patricia Rojas-Zambrano

Patricia Rojas-Zambrano, Ed. D, LMFT: Born and raised in Colombia, Patricia is psychotherapist, educator, a community advocate, and an artist. Her research explores issues of decolonization in education and psychology using somatic, arts-based and other qualitative methods. Patricia has spent 30 years working in community mental health and social justice issues in Colombia and with immigrant and refugee communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also works with the Misak indigenous community of Colombia to uplift their decolonial and liberatory educational models.

• Community mental health
• Social justice education
• Adult education
• Expressive arts therapy
• Somatic psychology

• Decolonial Psychology
• Adult education
• Qualitative research methods
• Arts-based research methods

• University of San Francisco, EdD in International and Multicultural Education, 2023
• California Institute of Integral Studies, MA in Counseling Psychology, 2002
• Universidad de Los Andes, BPsy in Psychology, 1997

• Associate Professor in Somatic Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies
• Program Director of Wellness in Action, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants
• Program Director, Diversity in Health Training Institute

• Rojas-Zambrano, P., & Katz, S. R. (2023). “Our Misak Identity Is the Spinal Cord of Our Education”: Oral History of Gerardo Tunubalá Velasco. International Journal of Human Rights Education, 7(1).