I obtained a B.A. and M.A. degrees in Chicana/o Studies from California State University Northridge, and my Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University.

My research focuses on understanding Mexican and Central American migration, labor histories, transnational cultural production, memory, and resistance from interdisciplinary perspectives. My previous research focused on the domestic worker rights movement in the U.S., exploring the changing landscape of activism before and after the passage of AB 241: The Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in California. My current work examines the intersections between immigrant labor, extractivism, and critical environmental justice. I recently published an article titled “Red Dust: Migration and Labor as Seismic Fractures to the Anthropocene” in Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities (Spring 2022).