ABOUT ME
I am a UC President's Postdoc fellow at UCLA in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. I will be an Assistant Professor at Vassar College in Latin American and Latinx Studies starting in the 2023-2024 academic year. I received my Ph.D. from Latin American and Latina/o Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. I received a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Amherst College. My research interests include: cultural memory, emotional injuries, and healing as it relates to Indigenous Zapotec and Mixtec communities, cine comunitario, and decoloniality. My research stems from a commitment to expanding the language of emotional wellness beyond pathologies. As a Postdoc, I am studying translocal health, community-centered exchanges about medicinal plants and rituals across urban and territorial territories within and outside Mexico. My research has been supported by the Fulbright Garcia Robles program, the American Philosophical Society, UC Berkeley's Research Program on Migration and Health, UCSC's Research Center for the Americas, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the UC Office of the President.
I am a UC President's Postdoc fellow at UCLA in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. I will be an Assistant Professor at Vassar College in Latin American and Latinx Studies starting in the 2023-2024 academic year. I received my Ph.D. from Latin American and Latina/o Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. I received a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Amherst College. My research interests include: cultural memory, emotional injuries, and healing as it relates to Indigenous Zapotec and Mixtec communities, cine comunitario, and decoloniality. My research stems from a commitment to expanding the language of emotional wellness beyond pathologies. As a Postdoc, I am studying translocal health, community-centered exchanges about medicinal plants and rituals across urban and territorial territories within and outside Mexico. My research has been supported by the Fulbright Garcia Robles program, the American Philosophical Society, UC Berkeley's Research Program on Migration and Health, UCSC's Research Center for the Americas, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the UC Office of the President.
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