Christina Gómez is a Professor of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).  Her research focuses on racial identity construction in the United States, discrimination, immigration, and undocumented students.  She is the author of numerous articles and two edited books: Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories (2007), a book of essays written by students about growing up Latino in this country, and Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (2014), a book about students who identify themselves as multiracial. Christina received her BA and MBA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Sociology.  She has received numerous prizes and fellowships, including the Henry Luce Scholars Fellowship, Social Science Research Council Grant, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship. Her recent research and writing have focused on transformational education and include: "Constructive Disequilibrium and Transformative Pedagogy: Developing Global Citizens in Faraway Spaces" in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (December 2021); and "Finding América: Creating Space and Place for Latinx Children's Books," for the collection exploring the life and legacy of Luis J Rodriguez.