Luimil Negrón-Pérez is a doctoral candidate in education and research assistant at the University of Missouri- St. Louis. As an education historian, she is interested in employing historical methodologies and ethnography to study the manufacture of racism and colonialism as forms of oppression in American schooling. Born to Puerto Rico’s diasporic community in Stuttgart, Germany, Ms. Negrón has spent most of her life in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Louis, Missouri. When she is not focused on her projects or studying the consequences of urban education reform in communities for the Spencer project, Luimil can be found playing her violin.
