Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Arlyn Moreno Luna PhD. and Advanced-Career Scholar Facilitator Cecilia Rios Aguilar PhD.

In this session, Dr. Moreno Luna will explore the concept of spatial (in)justice in the context of community colleges and present preliminary findings from a national longitudinal analysis on degree attainment at these institutions, along with future research. She invites feedback, questions, and reflections to refine the theorization and clarity of the presentation.

Dr. Moreno Luna is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, working under the mentorship of Dr. Rios Aguilar. Her research employs quantitative methods to investigate access, experiences, and outcomes in higher education for historically underrepresented students. Dr. Moreno Luna has developed and validated an innovative instrument to measure college adjustment, contributing to the field’s understanding of student success. Current projects focus on the college transition experiences of Latina students at an elite public four-year institution and the STEM identity and belonging of Latinx students at a rural community college. She received her PhD in Education from UC Berkeley in the critical studies of race, class, and gender program

Refreshments will be served. Please direct questions to Dr. Deborah Southern, desouth@ucla.edu