I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. I graduated from the University of South Florida in 2015 with a Masters of Arts in Sociology. In 2010, I graduated from New College of Florida, the public honors college of Florida, with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.
My research focuses on race and ethnicity, immigration, family, intersectionality, and Latina/o/xs. Guided by critical race theory and intersectional feminism, I focus on racialization, racial and ethnic discourses, and racial and ethnic identity formation of Latina/o/xs. My dissertation research examines how Latina/o/x families in Florida and California talk about racial and cultural identity and racism and how these conversations and experiences with racial and ethnic exclusion are gendered and vary by class. For this project, I am conducting in-depth, semi-structured life history interviews.
I have presented my research at the American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, the National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES), the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class conference, and the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). I have co-organized sessions and round tables for the American Sociological Association's annual meeting.
I currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Study of Social Problems. I am a Student Representative for the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class section. I am also a Student Advisory Editor for the journal, Social Problems. I was recently the Student Representative for the Latina/o Sociology section of ASA. I also served as a Graduate Student Representative and Treasurer and Secretary for ASA's Student Forum Advisory Board.
Website last updated: February 2019
My research focuses on race and ethnicity, immigration, family, intersectionality, and Latina/o/xs. Guided by critical race theory and intersectional feminism, I focus on racialization, racial and ethnic discourses, and racial and ethnic identity formation of Latina/o/xs. My dissertation research examines how Latina/o/x families in Florida and California talk about racial and cultural identity and racism and how these conversations and experiences with racial and ethnic exclusion are gendered and vary by class. For this project, I am conducting in-depth, semi-structured life history interviews.
I have presented my research at the American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, the National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES), the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class conference, and the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). I have co-organized sessions and round tables for the American Sociological Association's annual meeting.
I currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Study of Social Problems. I am a Student Representative for the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class section. I am also a Student Advisory Editor for the journal, Social Problems. I was recently the Student Representative for the Latina/o Sociology section of ASA. I also served as a Graduate Student Representative and Treasurer and Secretary for ASA's Student Forum Advisory Board.
Website last updated: February 2019
