Ramona Pérez is the professor of Anthropology, director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and chair of the Aztec Identity Initiative at San Diego State University. She also is the chair of the Institutional Review Board (2012 to present) and is graduate faculty in Global Health and Women’s Studies. Dr. Pérez has worked for more than 25 years on issues of gender and empowerment, lead poisoning among rural and indigenous people of Oaxaca, migration from Mexico and Central America to the U.S. and Baja California, Interpersonal violence against women and children, structural violence and health, and identity among indigenous Mexicans and Latinxs on both sides of the US/Mexico border. Her publications are in English and Spanish and can be found in journals and manuscripts in the fields of anthropology, geography, public health, social work, criminal justice and medicine.