Luz N. Burgos-López, MS

PhD Candidate, Neag School of Education
Assistant Dean of Students
University of Connecticut- Storrs 

Luz Burgos-López is a Queer white Puerto Rican who is passionate about racial justice and decolonization in higher education.  Luz aims to disrupt the production of anti-indigeneity and anti-blackness rhetoric as it pertains to theorizing and analyzing the Latine experience in U.S. higher education scholarship and beyond. As a scholar-activist, Luz understands the importance of community in dismantling colonialism and imperialism.  Therefore, her engagement with Puerto Rican community-based collectives, Colectivo Bambula and Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, holds her accountable and committed to decolonizing my praxis and scholarship. Luz is unapologetic about the fact that her scholarship is “shared with the Academy,” but “it is done for the community” (Jones, 2022, p. 4).

Burgos-López is a grantee of the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund (DPSF) recipients’ class of 2024 - 2025. In addition, Luz was named the inaugural recipient of the Brock/Ransby Award by DPSF in honor of the international solidarity and racial justice work of Dr. Lisa Brock and Dr. Barbara Ransby, two Chicago-based historians and scholar-activists.  Burgos-López is a doctoral student at the Neag School of Education, concentrating on higher education, racial justice, and decolonization at the University of Connecticut-Storrs.

Jones, A. (2022). Street scholar: Using public scholarship to educate, advocate, and liberate (C. Emdin, Foreword). Brill | Sense.