My teaching and research are grounded in Latinx and Latin American studies. Photography and performance arts feature often in my syllabi, as well as literary history focused in colonial Mexico and its greater diasporic areas.

I attended Southwestern Community College in San Diego, before transferring to the University of California Berkeley, where I received degrees in Anthropology and Latin American literature. In 2019, I earned an M.A. degree in Latinx Studies at Harvard University.

Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, I taught language courses at San Diego State University, and had the privilege to lead an artistic initiative in my local community, in Tijuana. Currently, I am a Ph.D Candidate in Latinx Studies writing a dissertation on queer and anticolonial narratives in the U.S.-Mexico border. My research and teaching interests include 18th century writings, and building connections between colonial Mexico, and its modern diaspora in the U.S. and Europe.