{"id":1915,"date":"2026-02-24T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/?page_id=1915"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:54:18","slug":"laura-cortes-franco","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/laura-cortes-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Cortes Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1915","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"one_column","heading":"Laura Cortes Franco","column_1":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1756 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/02\/Headshot-Cortes-Franco-1_10mb-Dr.-Cortes-Franco-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/02\/Headshot-Cortes-Franco-1_10mb-Dr.-Cortes-Franco-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/02\/Headshot-Cortes-Franco-1_10mb-Dr.-Cortes-Franco-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/02\/Headshot-Cortes-Franco-1_10mb-Dr.-Cortes-Franco-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/02\/Headshot-Cortes-Franco-1_10mb-Dr.-Cortes-Franco-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/02\/Headshot-Cortes-Franco-1_10mb-Dr.-Cortes-Franco-1366x2048.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Laura Cortes Franco &#8212; Professor of General Studies, Student Development<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Dra. Cortes Franco is an Associate Professor at Austin Community College, where she teaches EDUC 1300: Learning Frameworks, helping students develop critical thinking, resilience, and lifelong learning skills. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a Master\u2019s in Counseling and is the founder of Cortes Consulting, LLC, providing research-informed organizational and workforce consulting. A community college graduate, Mexican citizen, immigrant, and DACA recipient, her research interests include leadership, professional development, workplace systems, AI, and intersectionality. She brings a bilingual, equity-centered perspective to teaching, leadership, and applied practice and serves as Vice-Chair Commissioner on Austin\u2019s Community Police Review Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>laura.cortesfranco@austincc.edu<\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""}],"hero_content":false,"sidekick":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/lead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}