Speaking & Media
Dr. Perez turns scholarship into conversations people actually want to have — on national stages, in classrooms, and in the newsroom.
Signature topics
Building student mental-health programs, shrinking stigma, and the link between productivity, perfectionism, and self-worth.
Expanding access to reproductive care and delivering honest, judgment-free health education for young adults.
Service-learning as a tool for student success, community impact, and closing the achievement gap.
Helping first-generation and underprepared students persist, belong, and graduate.
Dialogue-based teaching, course design, and bringing well-being into the higher-ed classroom.
Years of chairing Women's History Month programming and mentoring the next generation of changemakers.
Selected engagements
A sample of the conferences and panels where Dr. Perez has presented her work.
Check availabilityIn the media
Dr. Perez's programs and perspective have been covered by national and local outlets, and she appears regularly on MDC-TV.