Sofia Dueñas is a second-year doctoral student in Sociology. She is affiliated with the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and a Burns Fellow in the Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (ND PIER). She received her B.A. in Sociology & Education from Whittier College and her M.A. in Urban Education from Loyola Marymount University. Sofia began her career as an elementary school teacher in downtown Los Angeles. She is passionate about community-engaged scholarship and QuantCrit (Quantitative Critical Race Theory). Her current research interests are primarily centered around education policy and how educational experiences vary across racial and socioeconomic groups.