The daughter of a Nicaraguan man and a white U.S.-American woman, Dr. González-Rivera grew up in a small town in north-central Nicaragua during the end of the right-wing Somoza dictatorship, the leftist insurrection of 1978, the early years of the Sandinista revolution of 1979, and the Contra War of the early 1980s. Professor González-Rivera is the first woman of Nicaraguan ancestry to obtain a Ph.D. in Latin American History from a U.S. university and is a pioneer in the fields of western Nicaraguan women’s and LGBTQIA+ history. In 2001 she co-edited the book Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right. Her second book, Before the Revolution: Women’s Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821-1979, was published in 2011. She is completing a third book, titled 500 Years LGBTQIA+ history in Western Nicaragua. Dr. González-Rivera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University, where she has taught for 15 years.
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