Laura Gonzales

Laura Gonzales is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida, known for her work at the intersection of language diversity, community engagement, and technology design. Her research emphasizes culturally-sustaining methodologies and digital innovation, particularly focusing on multilingual user experience design and intersectional accessibility frameworks. She has published extensively in journals like Technical Communication Quarterly and Kairos, with a monograph Sites of Translation (2018) exploring multilingual digital rhetoric.

Her current work includes a second monograph on 'multilingual user experience' developed through collaborations in El Paso, Kathmandu, and Oaxaca. Gonzales advocates for language justice in digital media design, integrating disability studies and intersectionality theory. She also leads community-based projects addressing health literacy and environmental justice in marginalized communities.

Her scholarly contributions span pedagogical innovations in technical communication, anti-racist reviewing practices, and coalitional organizing within academia. She maintains active engagement through her website, Twitter (@gonzlaur), and community partnerships in North Central Florida and global borderlands regions.