Dr. Morales is an award-winning instructor, who has taught a variety of courses at UC Santa Barbara and at Ithaca College. Her anticolonial pedagogies are collaborative and transform spaces of learning within and outside higher education. She has expertise in Indigenous Latinx women and Indigenous queer peoples’ struggles for sovereignty in California’s Central Coast and Central Valley.  She is interested in teaching courses that focus on Critical Latinx Indigeneities, settler colonialism, sovereignty, Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous Queer studies, Latinx studies, Native Indigenous families, California Indigenous peoples from the United States and Mexico, and Native Indigenous feminisms.