Griselda Guevara-Cruz ’11

Griselda Guevara-Cruz is a trilingual Ña’a Davi (Mixteca) with roots from Oaxaca, México. She comes from a farmworker family who spent many years traveling between Washington state, Oregon, and California. The daughter of monolingual Mixtecan immigrant parents, Griselda is a first-generation U.S. citizen and one of the first in her family to receive formal education. She is a proud graduate of Mariner High School (in Everett, WA), Whitman College (BA), The University of Texas at Austin (MA), and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI). Prior to joining the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction as a Program Supervisor in the Migrant Education Program, Griselda served as a College Bound Regional Officer at the College Success Foundation where she focused on advancing postsecondary opportunities for students in Washington state. Griselda is a featured author in the Harvard Kennedy School Journal of Hispanic Policy, Vol. 30 (“The Importance of College-Going Culture for Latinos Prior to High School”). She is also the recipient of the 2012 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Frederick A. Cervantes Undergraduate Student Premio for her research contribution to Chicana/o Studies (part of her honors thesis while an undergrad at Whitman College).