Originally from South Central Los Angeles, Dr. Eva Margarita received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2024. She teaches courses in Forensics and Decolonizing Communication Studies.

 Her research focuses grief, racial subjectivity and the United States Census. Dr. Margarita’s work is centered around Afro-Latinx communities with close attention to naming, invention and affect. Her work is informed by a training in Performance, Psychoanalysis, and Black Studies. Along with her scholarship, she is an established artist whose practice is guided by the principle that the rituals of everyday life acknowledge communal, scholarly, and spiritual methods of becoming. 

 She is the award-winning director of the Texas Speech team and the director of Speech for The University of Texas National Institute of Forensics (UTINF). Additionally, she is a board director for The VORTEX repertory and editor for the Journal of Women & Performance.