Awards
2025 – Picture Book Finalist for the Writer’s League of Texas Book Awards, El Bowie Bakery
2022-2023 - Mellon Applied History Fellow at the Center of the American West
2020 - Inducted into the Honor Society Foundation
2019 - Blue Mesa Review Contest Nonfiction Prize Winner with “Border Sisters”
2019 - Distinguished Donor Hispanic 100 Latina Giving Circle
2019 - Inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society
2018 - Junior League of Collin County Excellence in Volunteer Service Awards nominee
2017 - Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Graduate Student Nonfiction Prize winner
2015 - Named one of the 10 Most Influential Women in Dallas by LG Events
2015 - Saluted for community service by Women That Soar
2014 - Named Spokesperson for AdvoCare’s New Skin Care Line and received a $30,000 grant for a non-profit program preventing sex trafficking in Dallas.
Conferences
2023 Muñoz Toni Viva. “Lady Boner.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference. Texas A&M, Lubbock, Texas.
2023 Muñoz, Toni Viva. “The Sky as a Borderless Space: Transborderism in USMexico Border and South African Literary Fiction.” Conference on Border Studies - Transborderism – Reimagining Social Space. University of Tamaulipas and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
2022 Muñoz, Toni. “Autoethnography as a Teaching Tool.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.
2022 Muñoz, Toni. “Mother Tongues.” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.
2022 Muñoz, Toni. “Autoethnography: Preserving the History of the Resilient U.S.-Mexico Border Peoples.” The Barcelona Conference on Education. Barcelona, Spain.
2022 Muñoz-Hunt, Toni. “Underneath a Mexican American is an Immigrant: Understanding the Making of the U.S. Hispanic/Latinx Population.” Nationalisms in the 21st Century: From Europe to the Americas,” University of Grenoble-Alpes, France.
2022 Muñoz-Hunt, Toni. “Bodies on the Border: Remembering the Forgotten People Through the Emergence of Bordercanx Literature and Body. Theory.” Dallas Literary Festival, Southern Methodist University.
2021 Muñoz-Hunt, Toni. “The Border and the Body: An Exploration of Body U.S.-Theory on the US-Mexico Border.” Sigma Tau Delta Southwest Symposium. Oklahoma Baptist University.
2019 Muñoz-Hunt, Toni. “Aztlán: From Mythos to Logos in the American Southwest.” International Conference: Identity and Identity Needs Among Culturally Diverse Communities of the Communities of the Borderlands, University of Bialystok, Poland.
2019 Muñoz-Hunt, Toni. “Aztlán: From Mythos to Logos and the Bordercano/a Identity.” Examining the American Experience, An Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Graduate Conference, University of Alabama.
Invited Talks
2026 Featured author at Taylor Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Live
2025 Guest author at International Literacy Day panel for Region 7 Education Service Center
2025 Guest speaker at the Her Economy Town Hall “The Power of the Border: Empowering The Her Economy Through Collaboration and Innovation.”
2025 Guest speaker at Paid Vocation Interview with Lupe Prado to promote El Bowie Bakery
2024 Guest speaker at Stanley Korshak’ Beauty Master Class
2023 Guest speaker on “Coffee Time with CUSLAI” with The University of Texas at
2023 Dallas, Intercultural Programs Department
2022 “From Autoethnography to Children’s Books” SoulWhat Podcast: Metaphysics, Soul and Spirituality
2022 Guest speaker at the Association of Fundraising Professionals Dallas Chapter and Collegiate Chapter breakfast
2019 “Latina Life Hacks: Everything is not DIY!” Hey Chica Summit, Southern Methodist University, November 2, 2019.
2019 “Collaborating and Community Events” FC Dallas Partner Summit at Winstar Casino, May 16, 2019
2018 “Find Your Gente.” Hey Chica Summit, Southern Methodist University, October 20, 2018.
2016 “Beauty Live,” Galleria Dallas, April 12, 2016.
Media Coverage
2026 “Buy The Book” segment on CW 33 with Jenny Anchondo (Coming November 2026), featuring My Name in Brown
2024 “UT Dallas Literature Senior Earn First Place in Non-Fiction Writing Competition”
2024 “UT Dallas Literature Seniors Earn First Place Wins in Fiction Writing Competition”
2024 “CUSLAI’s Hispanx / Latinx Film Festival Showcases Vibrancy of Latin American Cinema”
2023 “New CUSLAI Director Drives Border Education and Interdisciplinary Growth”
https://bass.utdallas.edu/news/new-cuslai-director-drives-border-education-and interdisciplinary-growth/.
2023 “Applied History Initiative: Toni Muñoz-Hunt”
https://www.colorado.edu/initiative/applied-history/toni-mu%C3%B1oz-hunt
2023 “Latinx Film Festival Addresses Pressing Humanitarian Crises.” The Mercury, April 3, 2023
https://utdmercury.com/latinx-film-festival-addresses-pressing-humanitarian-crises/
2021 “Interview: Toni Muñoz-Hunt, PhD in Literature, Spring 2021”
https://bass.utdallas.edu/2021/03/24/interview-toni-munoz-hunt-phd-in-literature-spring-2021/
2020 “Corners of the Heart.” Frisco Life, June 2020.
2020 “Inspiring Women Issue.” Frisco Life, May 2020.
2018 “Friscovania: Through the Decades.” Frisco Style, Oct. 2, 2018,
https://friscostyle.com/stories/friscovania-through-the-decades/
2017 “Ladies Night Out with a Purpose.” NBC 5 Today, Sep. 23, 2017,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=XIeHk10bhn8&app=desktop
2017 “Where Passion Meets Purpose.” Frisco Style, Sep. 1., 2017,
https://friscostyle.com/stories/passion-meets-purpose/
2017 “Two Students Clinch Top Writing Awards.” The Graduate School, the University of Texas at Dallas, Aug. 31, 2017,
https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/news/4024/two-students-clinch-topwritingawards/
2017 “Salute to Community Service.” Women that Soar, Aug. 28, 2017,
2015 “Pretty City: Toni Muñoz-Hunt.” Papercity, July 31, 2015.
2015 “Arriving in Style: Toni Muñoz-Hunt Shares Her Secrets.” Indulge Magazine, May 10, 2015.
