I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in the University of California-Berkeley’s Sociology Department and a recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship.

I received my PhD in Anthropology & Sociology from the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2024. My dissertation, titled ‘Cargando con Cuba: The Embodied Labor of Becoming Transnational Among Cuban Migrants in Spain’, considered diasporic Cubans’ everyday negotiation of the closely bound material and moral obligations constitutive of cross-border economies of care. I hold a MA in Sociology and Political Studies and a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia.

The dismantling of borders and binaries underlays all my work to varying degrees. My broad research and teaching interests include transnational labor migration, its governance, and worker agency, cross-border economies of care, and feminist methods and ethnography. To date, I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Spain, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Canada.

Presently a co-convenor of AnthroMob and an editor with Allegra Laboratory, I am a former affiliate of the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Global Migration Centre and the Swiss School of Latin American Studies. Previously, I was seminar leader, academic coordinator, and lecturer of Latin American Studies with Kulturstudier at the Universidad National Autónoma de Nicaragua. In 2013, I co-founded RAMA, a migrant justice group that supports agricultural and undocumented workers on the unceded Syilx territories of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia.