She is currently associate professor and past chair of the physics department at California State University Dominguez Hills.
Her mother is Chicana and Yaqui, and was a cofounder of Chicano Park in San Diego, and also worked within the California Arts Council.
[4] After her final undergraduate semester, during which she studied abroad in Italy, Cid returned to completed a summer research program with Ramón E. López at the Florida Institute of Technology.
[5] Her thesis was submitted in May 2011 and is titled "Investigations in the impact of visual cognition and spatial ability on student comprehension in physics and space science.
[10] After completing her graduate degree, in 2011 Cid began a tenure-track position teaching at Dallas College North Lake Campus in Irving, Texas, and training their faculty on physics education.
While on the board, she organized the Día de la Física (Day of Physics) to engage and support Latinx and Indigenous students.
The group, based at Temple University, created a first-year curriculum related to the 2017 solar eclipse that was used in a summer program for students.
[12][1][13] The same year, Cid also helped lead the #ShutDownSTEM, #ShutDownAcademia, and #Strike4BlackLives protests to address anti-Black racism in academia and STEM fields.