I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis University. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University’s Population Studies and Training Center, where I held an NIH-funded fellowship. I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2023.

Born and raised in Chile, I am a critical medical, psychological, and political anthropologist whose work is grounded in feminist, decolonial, and phenomenological approaches to race, migration, and urban precarity in Latin America and the Americas. I specialize in historical and contemporary formations of Black, Indigenous, and transnational migration in Chile, with a focus on violence, care, risk, and the politics of space and place.

Committed to linking theory and praxis, my research, teaching, and public scholarship are rooted in critical pedagogy and collective forms of knowledge production. I view ethnography as a decolonial method for challenging dominant narratives, transforming institutions, and building interracial and anti-imperialist solidarities. My forthcoming book is titled The Home at Its Limits: Migrant Women and the Politics of Vulnerability in Chile’s Urban Borderlands. My work has appeared in both peer-reviewed and public-facing venues, including Ethos, Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad (forthcoming), Third World Quarterly, Fieldsights (Society for Cultural Anthropology), and the NACLA Report on the Americas, as well as in three Spanish-language edited volumes. It has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the Robert Lemelson Foundation, and Stanford’s Humanities Center, and recognized by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.