Dr. Daisy Verduzco Reyes is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California Merced. Her work centers Latinx populations including mothers-daughter relationships, undergraduate students, college graduates, and student loan borrowers. She is author of Learning to be Latino: How Colleges Shape Identity Politics which examines how race and ethnicity are constructed and mobilized within colleges and universities. She is working on a book that examines the mobility trajectories of college-educated Latinx millennials with specific attention to their financial experiences and familial arrangements.

Reyes is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants and a first-generation college graduate. She grew up on the east side of the San Fernando Valley. She holds degrees from the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of California Irvine.