I am an incoming (Fall 2024) Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science at ICTA-UAB and a REAL Project team member, working under Giorgos Kallis's supervision. My dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography of Latin American case studies in post-development.

I received a B.A. in Sociology, Spanish, and Global Liberal Studies (concentration in Politics, Rights, and Development) at NYU in 2017. My undergraduate thesis explored transitional justice initiatives in Guatemala intended to enfranchise populations affected by the armed conflict through land reform.

I completed an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from CLACS at NYU in 2019, during which I obtained a GSAS Departmental Fellowship. My Master’s project used a mixed-methods approach (multi-year datasets from the LAPOP surveys and semi-structured interviews) to describe Guatemala’s multiparty system. The findings were published in a co-authored paper in 2022.

I finished an M.A. in Sociology at USC. My Master’s project relied on ethnographic and archival fieldwork in Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi communities organizing grassroots campaigns in Guatemala’s extractive frontier. The findings were published in a solo-author paper in 2023. As a graduate student worker, I led undergraduate discussion sections on SOCI-200 Introduction to Sociology and SOCI-250mg Grassroots Participation in Global Perspective.