About
I am a Latinx feminist human geographer. In 2019, I completed my Phd in Geography at the University of Washington. My work focuses on analyzing how Latinx people - classified as "illegal immigrants" through the immigration law - build meaningful life in the US in the midst of state-sponsored oppression across time and space. My most resent publications include, Latinx Geographies: Opening Conversations in ACME, 2023; and Storytelling Earth and Body in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2022. I teach classes on Geographies of Migration, Qualitative Methods in Geography and Beyond, and Latin American Geographies. I am looking forwad to co-leading a study abroad focused on climate change, adaptation and migration in Oaxaca Mexico.Research interests
Geographies of Latinx migration (development and displacement, borderlands, citizenship, illegality, mobility)Critical geographies of race (Latinx geographies: Black geographies and Indigenous geographies, racial states, racial capitalism, geographies of survival and well-being)
Latinx feminist methods and theory (de-colonizing methodologies, border thinking, epistemic disobedience, epistemologies of the south)
Teaching interests
1) Geographies of migration: displacement, borders, and destination2) Latinx, Indigenous, and Black Geographies
3) Qualitative Methods in Geography
4) Geographies of Global Inequalities
Education
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Ph D, Geography
— University of Washington (2019) Inmigrante Indocumentado: Producing thriving communities in the midst of racial structural inequalitie
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MS, Geography
— University of Washington (2014) Leyes Crueles - Lugares Violentos: Mexican women’s testimonios along the migration journey