Alex K. Torrez (They/Them) is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the Sociology Department. They are broadly interested in questions at the nexus of Identity Classifications such as race, gender, and sexuality, Medical Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Organizations. Currently, these interests have led Alex to explore understandings of care in clinical settings, genomics, and the development of recruitment strategies for scientific study and organ donation.

Alex currently holds a position with the University of California, Berkeley’s Gender Equity Resource Center (GenEq) working under the Trans/nonbinary Campus Initiatives, is affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and has been awarded funds from the the Center for Race and Gender, Point Foundation, and the Townsend Center.