Verónica L. Reyna is an Associate Director for the Center for Civic Leadership, overseeing student led programs and faculty engaged graduate student led programs. She also leads the RiceVotes Collective. Previously, she was the Founder and Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Associate Chair of the Dept. of Government at Houston Community College where she taught national, state, and Latino politics courses. Verónica earned her BA in Political Science and Women’s Studies from Northwestern University and her doctorate from the University of Michigan in Political Science. Her scholarship and publications are in the areas of Latino and gender politics, civic engagement, and community engaged research.  Her textbook, Latino Politics: Power, Intersectionality, and the Future of American Democracy, was published in 2023 by Cengage.