Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Social Work
University of Texas at Austin, 2024
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Pérez Quiñones, K. A., Solis, M., Lee, T. C., Kirk, F., Chatham, A. A., & Valdez, C. R. (2026). Searching for comfort, beauty, and wonder: youth and the softer side of environmental justice. Community Development Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsag023
- Valdez, C. R., Leal, R., Chatham, A. A., Meltzer, G., Arroyo, E., Flores, L., & Solis, M. (2026). Extreme heat and physical and mental health: A qualitative study with low-income women in South Texas. Health & Place, 97, 103609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2026.103609
- Chatham, A. A., Cook, R., Luna, A., Vargas Espinosa, P., Ramírez Calderón, K., Gutierrez, I., … Valdez, C. R. (2025). Acceptability of mental health photovoice research with adolescents in rural Mexico. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 12. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2025.10080
- Solis, M., Pérez-Quiñones, K. A., Chatham, A. A., Banks, T., Levine, K., Lowell, J., & Valdez, C. R. (2024). Minoritised youth’s environmental justice priorities in a gentrifying context: brokenness and repair. Local Environment, 29(11), 1451–1469. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2394663
- Solis, M., Morales, S., Cohen, N., Pérez-Quiñones, K., Chatham, A. A., Hagerman, J., … Valdez, C. R. (2024). Young Latinas/os’ Environmental Commitments: The Case of Waste. Urban Planning, 9. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.8704