Montoya investigates the opportunities and challenges that Colorado's 32 Latina legislators have and continue to face on the path to the statehouse. She uses archival research and personal interviews with 22 legislators. 

Using interviews with Black women state legislators in Maryland and Louisiana, the authors examine how identity-based caucuses that champion a single vantage point – either race or gender – (Black caucuses, women’s caucuses) affect the legislative behavior and experience of Black women.