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Bianca N. Haro (Los Angeles, California) is a first-generation Latina of immigrant parents from Guadalajara, Jalisco. Originally from Southeast San Diego, CA she developed a passion for educational equity, justice, and empowerment for Youth of Color after witnessing the disproportionate number of Black and Latina/o youth that were detained in juvenile detention centers. In 2009, she graduated from the University of San Diego with a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Sociology. Bianca is currently a third-year doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Using Chicana Feminist frameworks, her current research is attentive to the ways in which zero tolerance policies and the presence of police on school grounds affect the educational trajectory of Latinas. Currently, she is working as a Graduate Student Researcher for the Black Male Institute at UCLA and is an active mentor for both, the Graduate-Undergraduate Mentorship Program at UCLA and the Puente Project at Long Beach City College. Her future aspirations are to enter a tenure-track position and establish a Girls of Color Institute at UCLA that will focus on improving the educational and life aspirations of Girls of Color through research and praxis. Participated in Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program America’s Future Summit.