Stephany Cuevas

Stephany Cuevas interdisciplinary research and practice focus on Latinx family engagement in students' higher education aspirations. Central to her research is the notion that Latinx students do not experience education in isolation, as sole compartmentalized, individual students. She considers it imperative to consider the significant and central role families have in shaping Latinx students' educational experiences. Her current research explores how family engagement shifts and changes as first-generation students advance in and complete their post-secondary trajectories. 

For the past 10 years, Stephany's has worked to support underrepresented students, their families, and the educators who work with them; she is committed to work that actively seeks to expose and combat issues of inequality. Stephany's has also worked with different school districts, individual schools, out-of-school organizations, and nonprofit community organizations across the United States, developing trainings and curriculum, professional development sessions, and doing evaluation work. 

Stephany's scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Higher Education, the Harvard Educational Review, and the Journal of Latinos and Education. Her research has been recognized by the Family-School-Community Partnerships Special Interest Group at American Education Research Association (AERA), the American Association for Hispanics in Higher Education, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education. She was also named a 2019 Emerging Scholar of Color by the University of Houston-Downtown.