The and both profiled Martha Gonzalez, associate professor of Chicanx/Latinx Studies at 61传媒 and lead singer, songwriter, and percussionist of the Grammy Award-winning band Quetzal, who recently received a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship. 鈥淲e鈥檝e been around for a long time,鈥 Gonzalez told the Courier. 鈥淲e鈥檙e very rooted to social justice movements in our communities and trans-nationally. I鈥檝e been utilizing music to engage in different contexts, from grassroots organizing to a musician on the stage, a musician in the community, a musician in the classroom, and a musician writing about music and social justice. In all of these ways, I guess, and the ways in which I talk about it and the community work that I鈥檝e been a part of, caught their attention. And here we are.鈥