about me

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Broadly, my research uses multiple methods to explore questions at the nexus of international migration, law and society, social demography, and inequality. 

Most of my current research examines the impact of immigration law and enforcement on the lives of immigrants and their families (mainly from Central America), who live in the U.S. and their home countries. My dissertation project is a multi-sited, multi-method study on how Salvadoran immigrants navigate and negotiate life after deportation. 

My research has been published or forthcoming in Ethnic and Racial Studies and RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. My work has also received generous funding support from the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG), the Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), among others. 

I was born in El Salvador, and was raised in the MacArthur Park/Westlate neighborhood of Los Angeles. I graduated from Pitzer College in 2018 with a  B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies. At Pitzer, I was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. 

You can read more about my research here.