I am a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and the School for Global Policy and Strategy, both based at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

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I am a political scientist working on the governance of international migration. Broadly, my research agenda focuses on three interrelated inquiries: the processes that shape the governance of migration; how states use migration to advance their political agendas; and how communities respond to state-implemented migration governance strategies. I explore these questions in the U.S., Mexico, and Central American contexts. The methods I use to engage with my research consist of archival research, ethnography, and interviews.

 

I received my Ph.D in political science in 2025 from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. I also hold an M.A in Politics from the New School for Social Research.  During my PhD, I was a predoctoral visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD. From 2018 to 2019, I was a Fulbright scholar at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), in Mexico City. 

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Apart from academia, I have also worked at the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives as a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute fellow.   I am also a community member of  Otros Dreams en Acción, an NGO based in Mexico City dedicated to supporting individuals deported or that returned from the U.S. 

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