About Me

 am an interdisciplinary scholar of Latin America, media, social movements and feminisms. Born and raised in Mexico, I completed my Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University with a Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in Summer 2024. Currently, I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in Sexuality Women and Gender Studies at Amherst College. 

My book project, The Violet Spring: Poetics and Technologies of Mexican Feminisms examines social mobilizations in response to gender violence that gave rise to mass protests across Mexico in the 21st century. I argue that women’s writing was the central component for the regeneration of social bonds and for the building of citizenship in a moment of political crisis. My work historicizes the political encounter of writing, an old technology, with the rise of digital media to reveal how civic participation and social movements are configured in the 21st century. I contend that to understand the social effervescence and forms of organization of contemporary social justice movements a thorough and attentive reading to people’s writing. 

Before joining Amherst College I was a Research Associate Fellow at the Five College Women Studies Center (FCWSC) in Amherst, Massachusetts where I presented my work to public audiences and organized roundtables on global south feminisms. From 2022 to 2023 I was a Diversity Predoctoral Fellow at the MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Program in Women and Gender Studies.

I studied an MA in Politics in the New School for Social Research, in which I specialized in political theory and ethnography. My Master’s paper is reshaping as a journal article about the massacre of the 72 migrants that took place in Mexico in 2010. I examine the dynamics between media outlets, state officials and families demanding for the repatriation of their kin to theorize how a political event is configured in the 21st century.

I also hold an MA in Communications from Universidad Iberoamericana, where I worked on cultural studies and undocumented immigration in transit through Mexico and a BA in International Relations with a minor in Latin American Literatures from Universidad de las Américas, Puebla.

Before fully transitioning to my academic career I worked as a journalist specializing in arts and culture, social justice, and women and gender topics. I also worked in the federal government in Mexico, and as a communications and cultural affairs consultant.