Fernando Salinas-Quiroz is an Assistant Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University.

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Her work sits at the intersection of psychology, education, trans* studies, travesti thought, and social justice. In dialogue with, and in debt to, Marlene Wayar’s ser en gerundio and the furia and ternura travesti of Susy Shock, Lohana Berkins, and their teacher Claudia Rodríguez, Dr. Salinas-Quiroz approaches research, teaching, and community work as practices of transfermation: fierce in resisting erasure, tender in sustaining life.

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Her research challenges traditional fixed-sequence theories of human development, treating the movement of gender identity and expression as knowledge rather than error. They aim to transferm childhood, parenting, schools, and decision-making processes so that life-sustaining resources reach everyone, regardless of institutional legibility.