Rocio Rivera-Murillo

Rocio Rivera-Murillo is a senior at California State University, Northridge with a double major in Chicana/o Studies and Sociology. She is an intern with the Revolutionary Scholars Project, a resource center for formerly incarcerated and systems-impacted students. She plans to pursue a doctoral degree in Ethnic Studies and her research will focus on the intersection of prisons and environmental justice.

Paola Tapia

Paola Tapia is a senior at California State University, Northridge with a double major in Chicana/o Studies and Sociology. She is employed at the Child Family Guidance Center, an agency dedicated to addressing the mental health needs of children. Paola supervises and arranges activities for the children receiving services. She plans to pursue a Master’s in Social Work to become a clinical therapist.

Kiara Padilla

Kiara Padilla graduated from California State University, Northridge with a double major in Chicana/o Studies and Psychology. She is an Andrew Mellon Foundation fellow in the HSI Pathways to the Professoriate program and recently started the doctoral program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She plans to pursue research on the mental health of deportees residing along the US–Mexico border with histories of incarceration.

Martha Escobar

Martha D. Escobar is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Northridge. She obtained her doctoral degree in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego and is the author of Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants. She is one of the coordinators of the Carcerality Research Lab and is a faculty advisor for Revolutionary Scholars Project, a resource center for formerly incarcerated students and systems-impacted students.