Lorena Muñoz PhD is interim Chief Diversity Officer, Associate Professor and Director of Ethnic and Race studies at California Lutheran University. Dr. Muñoz is an urban/cultural geographer whose research focuses on the intersections of space, gender, sexuality, class and race. Dr.  Munoz’s transdisciplinary research agenda has been focused on Latines in the global south, particularly in the areas the (in)formal economy, labor and the production of queer worldmakings. Dr. Muñoz received her PhD in Human Geography from the University of Southern California.