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Dr. Ramirez earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on western American and Indigenous/Native American literatures. She also completed dialogue training through Essential Partners, the Kettering Foundation, and the National Intergroup Dialogue Institute. Dr. Ramirez began teaching at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder in 2000 and worked for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, the Sewall Residential Academic Program, and the Center of the American West prior to starting as the MASP Assistant Director for Arts and Humanities Education in 2014. She also co-founded the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØDialogues Program and served as its director from 2010-2024. 

Dr. Ramirez's teaching, research and service focuses on pedagogical practices to advance education equity. Her main body of research is practitioner-based and considers how classroom-based critical dialogue practices can impact student learning of course content and help develop students’ sense of belonging in classrooms across the curriculum. Her dialogue-related research includes serving as Co-PI on a multi-year Spencer Foundation Civics Measures research grant to develop measurements for assessing dialogic and deliberative engagement across difference in educational settings.    

Dr. Ramirez has received several awards recognizing her efforts to put into practice her scholarly interest in educational equity, including a 2018 Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Leadership and Service and two student-nominated Marinus Smith Awards for her positive impact on Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØundergraduate students (in 2007 and 2021).