The high cost of textbooks creates barriers for students, especially those from underserved backgrounds, such as Black and Hispanic/Latinx/e students. This action research study aimed to reveal how Open Educational Resources (OER), or free, openly licensed materials, could mitigate barriers to success for Black and Hispanic/Latinx/e students. The…

This article engages Gloria Anzaldúa's concepts of "nepantla" and "nepantleras" as a conceptual framework for social studies classrooms that is attuned to the lived experiences of border-crossing--living in-between national, ethnic, racial, and gender worlds--and the "grietas y rajaduras" (cracks and ruptures) of…

As two-way immersion (TWI) programs continue to grow in the U.S., it is urgent that teachers counter deficit ideologies about bilingual children who come marginalized backgrounds. Neoliberalism ideologies have contributed to the growth of TWI programs because parents from mostly white and upper middle-class backgrounds see the economic/global…

In this ethnography, I examine how 17 Latinx bilingual education teacher candidates (TCs) completing a teacher education program at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HIS) in Southwest Texas negotiate circulating raciolinguistic ideologies across social and institutional spaces. Data for this dissertation consisted of classroom observations,…

Despite intersectional barriers to accessing and navigating institutions of higher education, Latine college student enrollment and attainment rates are increasing. This critical quantitative study employed Community Cultural Wealth framework to identify connections between cultural coping strategies and resilience among 143 Latine students at a…

This study uses a national longitudinal sample of 612 Latinx STEM bachelor's degree recipients across 171 higher education institutions to examine the STEM undergraduate experiences and institutional contexts that predict their values toward conducting research that will have a meaningful impact on underserved communities. Results show that…

The first three years of a child's life are of critical importance to the development of the brain. Children identified as not developing at a pace that is age level appropriate may be referred to early intervention services. This study identifies the successes as well as the various challenges that Latinx families encounter as they navigate the…

The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of Latina school administrators in their career pathway--specifically, the influences, resources, and supports they leaned on to navigate challenges as they pursued and persisted in educational leadership roles. The study also focused on the personal, professional, and spiritual…

In this article, we share insights from Raíces y Rutas, a digital storytelling workshop series which brought together Latinx immigrant families to share stories, make connections and build agency. Using popular education methods, we created a space for participants to engage in deep, communal thinking and theorizing. Participants developed the…

This qualitative exploratory study examines the perspectives of Hispanic women on barriers to educational leadership in the U.S. K-12 education. It aims to understand the challenges faced by Hispanic women in aspiring to leadership roles within the educational sector. Phenomenology, Driving Force Theory, and Intersectionality Theory form the…

Although data has shown that psychology graduate programs are actively recruiting an increased number of Students of Color, there is limited evidence that these programs are able to adequately support these students once they arrive. The purpose of the current study was to examine how Latiné graduate students' experiences of microaggressions from…

US Latine adults who prefer the Spanish language for healthcare encounter communication have high risk of health disparitiesm in part from low organizational health literacy, mental health stigma and discrimination. Organizational health literacy includes the provision of culturally responsive, language concordant health information, which…

A growing Latinx population within the United States and California has given rise to an increase in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and a proliferation of a new and lesser-known institutional type of HSI, the Hispanic-Serving Research Institution (HSRI). With HSRIs historically being identified as predominantly white institutions (PWI) and…

Autoimmune diseases affect millions of individuals within the United States and some autoimmune diseases tend to disproportionately impact women of color. While research on autoimmune diseases is expanding within the medical and mental health field, there is little know about the experience women of color with autoimmune disease have when…

This article explores how a local community came to value a Latinx bookstore as a supplementary knowledge space for Latinx history, literature, and culture. Findings detail how the bookstore served as a catalyst for a heterogeneous group of Latinx families and educators to: (1) access empowering reflections of Latinx histories that were not found…