ABOUT ME
I am a UC President's Postdoc fellow at UCLA in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. I received my Ph.D. from Latin American and Latina/o Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. My research interests include: cultural memory, emotional injury and healing as it relates to indigenous Oaxacan communities, cine comunitario, and decoloniality.
From 2017-2019, I conducted my field research in Oaxaca, with the support of a Fulbright García Robles grant, a UC Berkeley's Health Initiative of the Americas award, and a Research Center for the Americas fellowship. In Mexico, I interviewed cultural leaders, teachers, psychologists, and healers. I also partook in limpias (spiritual cleanses) and Temazcal (steam bath rituals involving prayers and medicinal plants) rituals.
I am a UC President's Postdoc fellow at UCLA in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. I received my Ph.D. from Latin American and Latina/o Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. My research interests include: cultural memory, emotional injury and healing as it relates to indigenous Oaxacan communities, cine comunitario, and decoloniality.
From 2017-2019, I conducted my field research in Oaxaca, with the support of a Fulbright García Robles grant, a UC Berkeley's Health Initiative of the Americas award, and a Research Center for the Americas fellowship. In Mexico, I interviewed cultural leaders, teachers, psychologists, and healers. I also partook in limpias (spiritual cleanses) and Temazcal (steam bath rituals involving prayers and medicinal plants) rituals.
