Biography

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1. • Olivo, V. B. (2025). The University of Texas at El Paso: A Historical Counternarrative to US Higher Education in the 20th Century. P. A. Sasso, D. Dos, & M. D. Nour (Eds.), Blurring Boundaries and Binaries: Belonging, Gender, & Mixed Heritage in Higher Education in the United States, 81-100. https://doi.org/10.1108/979-8-88730-793-020251007
   • Olivo, V. B., & Prieto, K. (2025). “We Exist:” A Narrative Exploration of Plurisexual Christian Student Identity. Journal of Bisexuality, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2025.2453848
   • Prieto, K., & Olivo, V. B. (2024). “We Don’t Do That:” Negotiating Graduate Education as a Bisexual+ Student. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education, 1(2), 4. https://doi.org/10.60808/m91m-w002
   • Olivo, V. B., Prieto, K., Copeland, O. (2024). You Can Stand Under My Bi+ Umbrella: Exploring Students’ Chosen Plurisexual Identity Labels in A. Herridge & K. Prieto (Eds.), Perspectives on Transforming Higher Education and the LGBTQIA Student Experience. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-2853-8.ch005
   • Maxwell, A., & Olivo, V. B. (2023). Sensegiving doesnt always make sense: Framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2255295
   • Prieto, K. & Olivo, V. B. (2022). “Low key from the university”: Making sense of researcher positionality and professional identity as bi+ women in academia. In A. Duran, T.J. Jourian, R. Miller, & J. Cisneros (Eds.), Narrating the insider/outsider paradox as LGBTQ+ educators in higher education and student affairs. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003255284
   • Olivo, V. B., & Cepeda, R. (2021). A call for the examination of multiracial students in Minority Serving Institutions. New Directions for Student Services, 2021(174), 15-20.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ss.20383
   • Núñez, A. M., Rivera, J., Valdez, J., & Olivo, V. B. (2021). Centering Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ strategies to develop talent in computing fields. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2020.1842582