Armando Lizarraga

A native of Inglewood, California, Armando Lizarraga is a rising fourth-year doctoral candidate in the program of higher education leadership and policy at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). Armando is a graduate research assistant for Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success and the director of pedagogy and practice with the Texas Prison Education Initiative at UT Austin. His research broadly focuses on postsecondary education in carceral facilities, financial aid access to incarcerated students, and supporting formerly incarcerated students in higher education institutions. Armando earned an Associate of Arts in general studies from El Camino College, a Bachelor of Arts in Chicana/o studies and sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master of Arts in higher and postsecondary education from Teachers College, Columbia University.