Title: Associate Professor of Education, Colorado State University
Muñoz’s research focuses on issues of college access, persistence and identity among underrepresented student populations, with a particular emphasis on the experience of undocumented and Latino/a students. Her first book, Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education: The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists, examines the lives of 13 student activists. She is originally from Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.