Diana RivieraDiana Riviera is a first-generation Chicana motherscholar, writer, and poet. She is an award-winning part-time faculty member at Capella University's School of Psychology, teaching graduate students at the master's and doctoral levels. She also serve as a dissertation chair of research in general psychology. Diana enjoys teaching and learning with graduate students from the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). She received her PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. Diana's commitment to NSU extends to her role as senior editor at The Qualitative Report. Her research interests are single mothers, U.S./Mexico borderlands, identity, and qualitative research. She favors a qualitative contemplative praxis and arts-based knowledge production and presentation approach. Diana has published academic pieces in The Qualitative Report, Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, and a coauthored Chapter titled Portraits of food insecurity in the colonias in the U.S. Mexico border region: Ethnographic insights on the everyday life challenges and strategies to access food by C.G. Vélez-Ibáñez & J. Heyman (Eds.), The U.S.-Mexico transborder region cultural dynamics and historical interactions (University of Arizona Press), and Chicana Motherscholar and the Rise of the Resistance During Times of COVID-19, in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. Read More Read Less