Nancy Morales is a doctoral candidate in the department of Feminist Studies at the University of

California, Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary research project focus on Indigenous Oaxacan

women and youth lived experiences in diaspora. Her previous research experience focused on the

National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and the National Domestic Workers’

Alliance (NDWA), exploring how race/ethnicity and gender become necessary for understanding

workers’ struggles within the immigration, labor, and civil rights movements. Morales received a

B.A. from UC Santa Cruz and an M.P.A from Cornell’s Institute for Public Affairs with a minor

in Latinx studies.