Sociology Graduate Students
- Title
- Doctoral Student
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Affiliations Latin American & Latino Studies
- Website
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, Room 129
- Office Hours Winter 2020: Tuesday 12:30-1:30pm in McHenry Lobby or by appointment.
- Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
Research Interests
Latinx Sociology, Immigration/Migration, Space/Place, Rural Studies, Critical Feminist Theories, Embodiment, Latina Girlhoods.
Biography, Education and Training
BA in Psychology and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz | 2012
MA in Gender & Cultural Studies, Simmons University, Boston, MA | 2015
My research examines how rural and agricultural contexts with a large Latinx immigrant majority shape racial, gender, and class formations in the United States. I am to understand and shed light on Latina rural girlhood, an experience that largely remains invisible in the context of the U.S.
Research Program Manager for Central Valley Freedom Summer Participant Action Research at UC Santa Cruz. Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Veronica Terriquez. Central Valley Freedom Summer (CVFS) aims to support efforts that build political power among young people of color in the Central Valley of California. Through university-community partnerships, CVFS will place trained UC students as interns and action researchers in organizations to support and inform grassroots organizing and voter engagement efforts in the region.
Student Ambassador for the Center of Expertise (COE) on Women's Health, Gender, and Empowerment (WHGE) with the UC Global Health Institute.
Honors, Awards and Grants
2019, Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development (SSRC-DPD), UCSC
2018-2019, UC Blum Scholars Research Grant, UCSC
2017-2018, Regents’ Fellowship, UCSC
2017-2018, Sociology Department Fellowship, UCSC
2017-2018, Koret Scholar Graduate Student Mentor Fellowship, UCSC
Teaching Interests
Instructor of Record
Winter 2019, LALS-01 "Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Studies"
Teaching Assistantships
Winter 2020, SOCY 105B - Contemporary Social Theory
Fall 2019, SOCY 3A - The Evaluation of Evidence
Spring 2019, SOCY 105B - Contemporary Social Theory
Winter 2018, SOCY 3B - Statistical Methods
Spring 2018, SOCY 139T-2 - Community-Engaged Research Practicum
Mentoring
2019-2020, Cultivamos Excelencia Graduate Mentor
2018-2019, Matriculating, Influencing, Networking, Triumphing (MINT) Scholar Graduate Mentor
2018-2019, Cultivamos Excelencia Graduate Mentor
2017-2018, EOP Pathways to Research Graduate Mentor
2017-2018, Koret Scholar Graduate Student Mentor
2017-2018, Matriculating, Influencing, Networking, Triumphing (MINT) Scholar Graduate Mentor
