Corina Gonzalez (she/her),  NWHM's 2024-2026 Evelyn Y. Davis Predoctoral Research Fellow in Women's Studies, is a Ph.D. student in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies. As a first-generation college student, born and raised in the Inland Empire, she obtained her B.A. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research interests include 19th-century California, Women's history, Chicana/o history, Race & Ethnicity, and Gender & Sexuality. Corina is currently researching how Spanish-Mexican women influenced 19th-century California's social life and identity through ideological beliefs of race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality. She is also the recipient of the Evelyn Y. Davis fellowship in Women’s History at the National Women's History Museum.