I am a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-2027) at the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. At UCSC, I am affiliated with the Extractivism & Society Research Cluster.

My work builds on the knowledge of women and Indigenous communities to study the intersection of the (built) environment, political economy, and violence in the Americas. Through archival, ethnographic, and legal sources, I develop a multiscalar perspective on infrastructure. I develop my research through collaborations with frontline organizers in what I call a militant ethnography. In my work, I combine and expand on the insights from feminist political ecology, anticolonial science and technology studies, and anti-extractivism.

I pursue two main lines of investigation: Energy Transition Justice and Feminist Futures. In the former, I engage with the struggles of peasant and Indigenous peoples in Central Mexico fighting against the imposition of transitional megaprojects, as well as the abandonment of oil and gas in California. In the latter, I center the experiences of women building alternatives in the present that illuminate infrastructures of care and the commons.  My work has been featured in peer-reviewed articles in Ecología Política: Cuadernos de Debate Internacional (2016), Ciudades: Análisis de la coyuntura teoría e historia urbana (2018), Regions and Cohesion (2021), as well as online pieces for broader audiences. I am currently working on my first manuscript “Sovereign and Deadly Energy Transition: Communal Life Against Extractivism in Mexico.” I hold a PhD in Anthropology (UCSB, 2025) and a Master’s in Social Anthropology (El Colegio de Michoacán, 2013).