Brianna R. Ramirez, PhD Student University of California, San Diego Through this blog post, I begin to engage the following question that as an emergent Chicana higher education scholar I constantly reflect on and will continue doing so throughout my research journey- In what ways can higher education scholarship center the knowledge of Students of Color [i] ? So much scholarship has been conducted on or about , less with and alongside of the students and communities that many of us hope our scholarship will serve. In addressing this question, I draw from Chicana feminist theories, that as a Chicana scholar has become my epistemological and methodological home as I sought a research grounding that not only validated the ways of knowing and lived experiences of my students and their families, but also my own cultural intuition and contribution to scholarship and academia as the oldest daughter of Mexican immigrants. Chicana feminist and critical race scholar, Delgado Bernal (2002) rem