Litzy Galarza is a first-generation Mexican American and Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Galarza’s research is situated at the intersection of Media Studies, Latina/o/x Studies, and Citizenship Studies. Her scholarship focuses on the representation of Latina/o/x labor and citizenship in popular media, including television and advertising. Galarza’s work appears in the International Journal of Communication (2021) and the Howard Journal of Communications (2022) as well as in the following edited collections: The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture (2023), Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences (2021), and The Routledge Companion to Media and Class (2019). At Pitt, Dr. Galarza teaches courses in Latina/o/x media, media and consumer culture, race/ethnicity, and gender in popular media (especially television), and media law, among other topics. In fall 2022, NCA’s Latina/o Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus awarded Dr. Galarza, and second-author Paulina A. Rodríguez Burciaga, the “Book Chapter of the Year Award” for “Un Puente a la Mesa: The Role of Cultural Translators in the Production of Disney/Pixar’s Coco.” In fall 2017, Galarza’s conference paper, “‘#IMMIGRATIONREFORM’: Jane the Virgin speaks back to power and complicates representations of pan-Latinidad identities in television,” was part of the top papers panel for the National Communication Association’s Latina/o Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus. Dr. Galarza is currently working on her first book, which addresses discourses of Latina/o/x citizenship and belonging in the television series Jane the Virgin.