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Enrique Sepúlveda is an Assistant Professor of Chicanx/Latinx Studies in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Â鶹ӰԺ. He is the son of Mexican migrant workers from the Texas/Mexican border and in his early career he worked as a bilingual classroom teacher and school principal in the northern California central valley. These experiences have shaped his lens and motivations to interrogate, examine and dismantle dominant structures, narratives and practices around culture, race and language that serve to marginalize and keep people from realizing their full humanity. Dr. Sepúlveda has centered his research projects in Latinx communities and schools heavily impacted by global migration in northern California, San Salvador, El Salvador, and Madrid, Spain. His research examines how Latinx peoples, youth and their families, negotiate from the bottom up global migration, citizenship, belonging and complex identity formation processes in the context of severe inequality and structural constraints within sending and receiving contexts of transnational migration circuits. His work seeks to understand and develop methodologies and pedagogies that facilitate a deeper understanding of the complex, liminal lives of migrant youth and community.Ìý