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Matos, J.M.M. (2019). La familia and other secret ingredients to Latinx student success. New York: Peter Lang.


Matos, J.M.D. & Norskey, G.E. (2018). “Choosing Each Other: Love, Friendship, and Racism” in M.R. Hall & K. Smith (Eds.), Uncommon Bonds: Women Reflect on Race and Friendship. New York: Peter Lang.


Matos, J.M. (2018). Book Review: Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race (Beverly Tatum, 2017, Basic Books), for Humanity and Society DOI: 10.1177/0160597618761471


Matos, J.M.D. (2015). La Familia: The Important Ingredient for Latina/o College Student Engagement and Persistence, Equity & Excellence in Education, 48 (3), 436-453.


Was a Hispanic Heritage Month speaker at San Bernadino Valley College. Matos offered a virtual reading from their book, La familia: And other secret ingredients to Latinx student success.


Was invited to be a Wesleyan University College of Education Colloquium speaker to read from her book La familia: And other secret ingredients to Latinx student success on April 14, 2021.

Was elected to the South Hadley School Committee in the local election on April 13, 2021.


Was invited to speak at the UMass Amherst College of Education with Carmen YulĂ­n Cruz on "Transformation through Collaboration: Two Communities Collaborate to Learn from Each Other" about the ÓűÂţɬ STEM program in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 31, 2021. 


Presented research on facilitating dialogues on race in college courses at the POD Network Conference, November 13-17, 2019. Pittsburgh, PA.


Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for EAGER: Collaborative Research: Towards an Extensible Internet.