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Wilfredo Flores, PhD, is an assistant professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He holds a PhD in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (with a focus on Indigenous Studies) from Michigan State University. 

Dr. Flores is an awards-winning rhetorical scholar of health and medicine. He is a rhetorical scholar and qualitative researcher, and his research and teaching use critical and rhetorical theory to outline health and technology injustices while redressing them via user experience methodologies, communication design, and community engagement. His work is animated by the ways marginalized communities encounter and navigate complex systems of biomedical and technological injustices within their lives, and he uses his research findings to equip community with the tools to redresss colonial damage. 

He is a co-founder of and former organizer with Queering Medicine, a Lansing, MI-based grassroots queer health collective. He also serves as a co-producer for the Storying Sex podcast and oral history project,  and he is part of the editorial collective for the Q+Public book series through Rutgers University Press (and if you have a smaller book project idea, please reach out to him). 

He lives in Charlotte, NC, writes in the city's many coffee shops, takes public transportation whenever he can, dances at raves and day parties, cares for his senior cat, and owns too many books. Yes, his hair is real.