Nina Monet Reynoso, PhD

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Nina Monet Reynoso, PhD

Assistant Professor
WEST
ACAD 416

Biography

Dr. Nina Monet Reynoso is a scholar, artist, and advocate for the working class and marginalized communities. Her most recent chapter, “The Political Economy of Military Recruitment and Education Privatization” featured in Race and Refusal documents the underlying mechanisms that promote militarization and neoliberal reform in education. Before arriving at UCCS, her work with the Million Dollar Hoods Project at UCLA utilized publicly available data to map the human and fiscal cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. 

Education

  • Ph.D., Social Sciences and Comparative Education, University of California Los Angeles
  • M.A., Higher Education and Organizational Change, University of California Los Angeles
  • B.A., Psychology, Occidental College

Research Areas

  • Black Studies
  • Militarism
  • For-profit education
  • Media studies
  • Veterans History & Rights

Teaching

  • WEST 1010
  • WEST 4130

Select Publications

  • Reynoso, N. M., Foxx, K., Tadesse, A., & Mack, C. (2022). Patching the Pipeline: Reimagining the Roadmap to Higher Education. In African American Leadership and Mentoring Through Purpose, Preparation, and Preceptors (pp. 266-289). IGI Global.