Ignangeli Salinas-Muñiz is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan. Her research centers on representation, accountability, and possibility in the U.S. territories and other U.S. geographical pockets where racial and ethnic minorities experience limited democracy. Her interest in United States imperialism and uneven democracy guides her work at various intersections. With the support of the Fund for Latino Scholarship, she will attend the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting. There she will present co-authored work on polarization, presidential incentives, and the development of abortion bans in foreign aid. Ignangeli completed her undergraduate degree in political science at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.
She is an NSF GRFP recipient and an RBSI alum.