Trinidad Morales III was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, a southwestern city bordering Mexico and New Mexico. Dr. Morales earned his undergraduate and Master of Arts degrees at The University of Texas at El Paso, a Research One Hispanic-Serving Institution with more than 80% Latinx students, many of whom are first-generation students. He later obtained his PhD from Texas A&M University and graduate certificates in Diversity and Inclusion, Foundations of Statistics, and Non-Profit Management from Cornell University and Texas A&M University. He has interned within the Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch at the U.S. Census Bureau, worked as a social science analyst at the National Institutes of Health, served on research projects examining minority health disparities, and has taught criminology, methods of research, race/ethnicity, and sociology undergraduate courses since 2010 at various academic institutions. However, he most enjoys mentoring students as they apply for graduate, law, or medical school.
