This study addresses common assumptions about women of the borderlands while embracing a transformative consciousness in understanding, making, and reclaiming the meaning of citizenship for Mexican American women from the Rio Grande Valley. This critical ethnography recognizes Chicana Feminist epistemologies as a form of knowledge. Therefore, this space is dedicated to learn, explore, and discuss how Chicana Feminist epistemologies (CFE) shape and support citizenship among young Mexican American high school graduates from the Rio Grande Valley. Based on Gloria's Anzaldua's (1987) "Borderlands/La Frontera," Rio Grande Valley is a geographical, historical, and symbolic piece to this study; at the same time, "La Frontera" is part of the larger narrative of colonization, legal and illegal immigration to the United States, and the law enforcement of the border. Home to a unique, transnational community of over 1.3 million people, RGV has the highest economic disadvantage for students in Texas. This ethnography acknowledges and documents the struggles for claiming and understanding U.S. citizenship for Mexican Americans and the enduring history of marginalization and exclusion marked by race, gender, class, and immigration status. Because of these challenges, this ethnography will use a qualitative approach to explore Anzaldua's "El Camino de La Mestiza" as the theoretical framework to explore the meaning of citizenship for young Mexican American women through "platicas." Although Mexican American women face unprecedented challenges that prevent them from achieving socioeconomic mobility, this research aims to provide a voice and agency to women to see themselves as creators of knowledge and agent in the political decision process of democracy. In addition, the current COVID-19 pandemic has drastically impacted the delivery of educational instruction and many other modes of learning and research. Therefore, this study will use technology as the platform to conduct the "platicas" to rethink traditional educational spaces by understanding Chicana Feminist epistemologies as a form of knowledge in academic research. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]