Dra. Susana Muñoz (she/her/ella) is Associate Professor in the Higher Education Leadership Program and Associate Director for Inclusive Excellence and Faculty Development in the School of Education at Colorado State University. Her scholarly work centers on equity, identity, and campus climate for undocumented Latinx students, employing critical frameworks including legal violence, racist nativism, and Chicana feminist epistemology to identify and dismantle systems of oppression affecting minoritized populations in higher education.

Dra. Muñoz has received national recognition for her scholarship and advocacy. She was honored by the White House Initiative for Educational Excellence for Hispanics, named a Salzburg Global Fellow, and recognized as one of the “top 25 most influential women in higher education” by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. In 2018, she received the ACPA Senior Scholar Grant to investigate the experiences of DACA and undocumented community college students during politically turbulent times. She earned her B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Iowa State University, M.S. in Student Affairs and Higher Education from Colorado State University, and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Iowa State University.