Welcome.

Research

Hello! I am a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . My interdisciplinary dissertation project examines the U.S.-Mexico border regime’s temporality through the perspectives of people who reside in Tijuana, Mexico and work, attend school, or conduct other daily activities in San Diego County. My academic work is informed by insights in queer theory (queer of color critique), the mobilities paradigm, critical border studies, Black feminist thought, and migration studies in sociology and anthropology.

Biography

I was born in San Diego, CA but was raised in Tijuana, Mexico until moving to Orange County in the late 1990s. I had the privilege of living in both cities for a substantial amount of time. I have also commuted between them at different points throughout my life. These commuting experiences inform my academic work as well as my poetry. I am a first-generation community college transfer student. I earned a B.A. in sociology from California State University, Channel Islands in 2016. I began my Ph.D. journey in the Fall of 2017 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.