Biography

Paula Michelle Ochoa is a Ph.D. student who studies the Transborder Lifestyle of families in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Michelle is interested in researching the influence of race, class, gender, culture, language, citizenship, and borderland location on transborder/transfronterize student’s academic success. They are also interested in working with mentorship and leadership programs designed to support underrepresented students and help create inclusive spaces for transborder/transfronterize student commuters. She is currently working on their dissertation “The Transborder Lifestyle: Studying, Parenting, and Schooling Across Borders” and as a Graduate Assistant with the Department of Sociology. Michelle holds a B.A. in Mexican American and Latinx Studies and Government from The University of Texas at Austin.