Sociology Graduate Students

Research Interests

Latinx Sociology, Immigration/Migration, Space/Place, Rural Studies, Critical Latina and Black Feminisms, Embodiment, Intersectionalities of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality. 

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

Current Research Project: Interested in enacting community-based particpatory action research in the rural communities of the Central Valley through a feminist lens. More specifically, I will explore how women and young girls from low-income rural communities in the Central Valley take political action to enact social change in their local communities.

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 

Spring 2019, SOCY 105B - Contemporary Social Theory

Winter 2018, SOCY 3B - Statistical Methods

Spring 2018, SOCY 139T-2 - Community Engaged Research Practicum  

Mentoring 

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