Dr. Nancy López ([email protected]) is professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Dr. López directs and co-founded the Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice (race.unm.edu), an unfunded academic and research Institute at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Dr. López’s scholarship, teaching and service is guided by the insights of intersectionality –the importance of examining race, gender, class, ethnicity together–for interrogating inequalities across a variety of social outcomes, including education, health, employment, housing, and developing contextualized solutions that advance social justice. Dr. López is author of Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education (2003); she co-edited, Creating Alternative Discourses in the Education of Latinas and Latinos(2003), Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research(2013); and, QuantCrit: An Antiracist Approach to Education Equity (2023). Dr. López is the first woman of color tenured in the Sociology department and the first woman of the African Diaspora (Black Latina/Dominican) tenured in the College of Arts and Sciences (2008) and promoted to full professor (2018) at UNM.