Professor Ortiz was one of my professors for my Interracial Dynamics cluster course, and to be frank, she was my least favorite lecturer. She is very knowledgeable, and she typically covered the topics of Mexican immigration, which I do believe she knew a lot about. Professor Ortiz was just very blunt, and didn't seem to really care about students' input at times. She would often cut students off when they were talking (it happened to me!) and she is very outspoken about her own view of things. She would allow some discussion during lecture, but would often get impatient when other students were discussing an idea and would hurriedly shush them so that she could get back to talking herself. She didn't come off as very welcoming and it made me timid to ever want to talk to her personally or ask her a question. She did keep the class's attention during her lectures, however, and made no hesitation in calling out students if they were talking during her lecture. She walks around a lot too, and likes to walk up the aisles. She reminded me of a hawk hunting its prey.