Mary Dueñas is an assistant professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS) at the University of Tennessee. Her research examines the ways in which larger social processes affect students and their overall well-being while also addressing underrepresented and marginalized student retention and success. She has focused her scholarship on qualitative and quantitative methods to examine students’ higher education experiences. Dueñas examines the experiences of underrepresented populations (i.e., Latinx/Hispanic/Black/African American individuals, first-generation college, college-going students, commuters, and those in STEM) and creating pathways for which they can thrive and succeed in higher education while critically thinking about systems and structures of oppression. Her publications have been featured in the Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Latinos and Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. She is an active member of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the Association of Hispanics and the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE). Mary Dueñas holds her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.