Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Northern Arizona University
PhD, University of Southern California, Urban Education Policy, 2020
Cynthia D. Villarreal is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University. Previously, she was a visiting assistant professor at University of California, Riverside. Villarreal was a postdoctoral research associate in the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who challenges issues of equity in higher education by examining and interrogating organizational processes, policies, structures, and culture through a race-conscious and feminist lens. She considers herself a qualitative researcher and storyteller in/on the borderlands who prioritizes counternarratives to critique and transform higher education.