Dr. Lorraine Cruz Del Rio is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley and a decolonial feminist sociologist whose research lies at the intersections of race and ethnicity, health, and gender. Her work uses quantitative and geospatial methods to examine health and socioeconomic inequalities associated with colonialism, coloniality, and migration, with a particular focus on Puerto Rican communities and other colonial diasporas.

She is completing a book manuscript titled Colonial Data Dispossession: Administrative Power and the Production of Ignorance, which traces how the administrative data infrastructure of Puerto Rico's courts, health system, and schools renders colonial harm difficult to see, and how communities have built counter-archives in response. Her writing has appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology, Violence Against Women, the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, most of it under her former name, Lorraine L. Torres Colón. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.