Julissa O. Muñiz
Julissa O. Muñiz, PhD, is an assistant professor of education in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Muñiz is also a Faculty in Residence for the Center for Justice at UCLA where she supports the Prison Education Program. Broadly, her scholarship examines how people and communities of color (e.g., Latinx, Black, and Indigenous communities) navigate, negotiate, and resist racialized organizations and systems such as the public education, criminal legal, and juvenile legal systems. She does so by studying juvenile court schools and the policies and practices that enable and/or constrain generative learning, while centering the experiences of incarcerated youth. In an interrelated strand of research, Dr. Muñiz also studies the educational trajectories of formerly incarcerated Latinas and how their lives have been shaped by histories of violence. Dr. Muñiz holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University, an Ed.M. in Prevention Science and Practice from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
