Dr. Luis Urrieta, Jr. serves as a Professor of Cultural Studies in Education. He is also affiliated, by courtesy, with the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS), the Native American & Indigenous Studies Program (NAIS), and the Lozano Long-Benson Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). Dr. Urrieta’s research interests include: 1) cultural and racial identities, 2) agency as social and cultural practices, 3) social movements and collective action in relation to education, and 4) learning within family and community contexts. His focus extends to Chicanx, Latinx, and Indigenous (P’urhépecha) cultures and identities, activism as a social practice within educational environments, oral and narrative traditions in qualitative research, and Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies. Dr. Urrieta earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. He has held positions as a resident scholar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Fulbright Garcia Robles Fellow in Mexico, and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the Spencer Foundation, and the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.