“…In my critical policymaking research, I have employed intersectionality, Black feminist theory (Martinez, 2022b), Chicana feminism (Martinez, 2022a), feminist borderland theory (Martinez, 2022a), and critical race theory (Martinez, 2020a(Martinez, , 2020b, which have expanded our epistemological knowledge on how new policy entrants exercise their agency to transform politics and shape agendas that advance both their communities and policy priorities. Notably, using critical qualitative methodologies, I illustrate the ways that new policy entrants create spaces of praxis in historically excluded policymaking governing bodies and spaces, navigate insider/outsider spaces, and embody their policy ways of knowing.…”