Your Story Matters

In addition to his fiction, Gómez is the author of numerous academic and community publications focused on migration, Latinx experience, information technologies, and participatory research. Some of the books include: 

•             Photostories: Applications of a Participatory Photography Methodology for Social Science Research. Ethics International Press, August 2024. EN. ISBN: 978-1804417799. https://mybook.to/PhotoStoriesMethod

What happens when you hand the camera to the people whose stories you’re trying to tell?

Photostories presents a rigorous methodology for participatory photography in social science research — an approach developed across two decades of fieldwork with migrant communities, Indigenous populations, and marginalized groups in Latin America and the Pacific Northwest. The book provides practical frameworks for researchers who want to move beyond extractive documentation toward collaborative visual storytelling, including ethical protocols, facilitation guides, and case studies from projects spanning Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and Washington State. For social scientists, public health researchers, and community organizers seeking methods that honor the expertise of the communities they serve.

English · Hardcover · Ethics International Press

•             Resilience: Latinx Stories and Immigration Enforcement in Washington State. Ethics International Press, July 2023. EN. ISBN: 978-1804412404. https://mybook.to/ResilienceLatinx 

In Washington State, first-generation Latino and Latina college students navigate a system designed to exclude them — not just the university, but the enforcement apparatus that shadows their families.

Resilience combines oral histories from University of Washington students and alumni who self-identify as Latinx with an analysis of collaboration between local law enforcement and federal immigration agencies, drawing on the work of the UW Center for Human Rights. The result is a book that refuses to separate the “success story” of college attendance from the lived reality of immigration enforcement: the traffic stop that becomes a deportation proceeding, the parent who doesn’t attend graduation because the courthouse is too close to the ICE office. Research-grounded, community-centered, unflinching.

English · Hardcover · Ethics International Press

•             Latinx Experience in Academia: Charting the Paths of Latinx Faculty at the University of Washington. Independently Published. May 2020. EN. https://mybook.to/LatinxInAcademia 

What does it take to build an academic career when the institution wasn’t built for you? This collection charts the professional journeys of Latinx faculty at the University of Washington — from hiring and tenure to mentorship and institutional change. Through first-person narratives and analytical essays, the contributors document what official diversity reports cannot: the invisible labor, the cultural code-switching, the quiet persistence that sustains a presence in spaces that still treat it as exceptional.

English · Kindle · Paperback

•           LatinX @ UW: Stories of Latinos and Latinas at the University of Washington. Independently published. February 2018. Bilingual (EN/ES). https://mybook.to/LatinxInAcademia 

The stories behind the statistics. This bilingual collection (English/Spanish) gathers the voices of Latino and Latina students, staff, faculty, and alumni at the University of Washington, documenting decades of community-building within an institution that has not always made room for them. A companion piece to the broader Latinx academic experience — personal, multigenerational, and told in both languages because the community it serves lives in both.

Bilingual (English/Spanish) · Paperback

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