Bianca Pérez
Academic Advisor
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Contact
Building & Room:
3rd Fl. UH
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About
Bianca Rosa Pérez is an Academic Advisor in the College of LAS. She is a first-generation college student and the daughter of Mexican immigrants. Bianca has a BS in Clinical/Community Psychology and a BA in Latina/Latino Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a MA in Latin American and Latino Studies from University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). As an undergraduate student at UIUC, she worked in various campus units, including La Casa Cultural Latina, the Counseling Center, the Women's Resources Center, and the Infant Cognition Lab. While a MA student at UIC, she was an Access to Excellence Fellow, a TA for LALS 109: Introduction to Latino Cultures, and interned for the Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center (LCC). Her undergraduate honors research and graduate research focused on college-age Latina women, body-image, their perception of the "Latina Look," and consumption's role in identity formation. She was an intern at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2022, during which she worked on "The First 100: 50 Years of Chicanas Changing History" project. She has also worked as a research assistant on studies about Latinos' trust in government, racial disparities and COVID-19, and Latinos and the Census. In 2023, Bianca was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Universidade Federal de Lavras in Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She also mentors a first-generation college student through the Excel Beyond 211 mentorship organization. Bianca loves painting, jewelry-making, learning languages (especially Brazilian Portuguese), visiting museums, taking photographs, watching novelas, and traveling.