The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is stepping down after nearly two decades Todd Cheney/UCLA Chon Noriega speaking during a tour of the Chicano Studies Research Center–organized exhibition “Home — So Different, So Appealing” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2017. Noela Hueso | May 21, 2021 When Chon Noriega became director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, he saw it as an opportunity for him to take some of the things he was doing at other institutions around the country — bringing artist papers into archival settings, developing media-based teaching materials on race and ethnicity, and curating exhibitions and festivals — and bring them into one place at UCLA.