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Written for newspapers, research centers, and academic presses. Each entry links to the original publication.
01Austerity Is Not Good Governance. Illinois Needs a Millionaires Tax.Moral Math · SubstackAUG 2026
02 Budget for the revenue our students are owed Chicago Tribune JUL 2026
03 Puerto Rican Student Activism and Enacting Consciousness in Chicago Educational Policy · Sage 2022
04 Complicating Latinidad: Learning to be Black in an Anti-Black World OCCRL, Illinois JUL 2020
05 Historical and Contemporary Contexts of Student Activism in U.S. Higher Education with C.J. Broadhurst Routledge 2019
06 A Critical Interpretation of the Hispanic-Serving Institution Designation Effects on Institutional Identity OCCRL · U. of Illinois FEB 2019

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