she/her
Social Sciences Division
Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Crown College Faculty Wing
N/A
Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
Education
Ph.D. Student in Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California Santa Cruz
M.A. in Chicano/Chicana Studies, California State University Northridge
Thesis "Constructing Community: San Fernando Valley Youth and Community Activism"
B.A. in Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California Irvine
Social Movements, Youth Studies, Chicana Feminisms
Graduate Student Instructor Experience
- Social Justice at Work (LALS 90F)
- Chicana Organizing Histories (LALS 49)
- Pedagogical Approaches in Latin American & Latine Studies (LALS 294)
Teaching Assistant Experience
- Social Science Analytics (LALS 100A)
- Racism, Science, and Health: Colonial and Carceral Legacies (LALS 54)
- Introduction to Human Rights and Social Justice (LALS 5)
- Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS 1)
- Hip Hop History (LALS 79)
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: An Introduction (CRES 10)
First Generation Graduate Student Research Support Grant, University of California Graduate Division (March 2025)
Research Support Grant, University of California Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department (March 2025)
Fellowship, Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities (Fall 23 - Summer 24)
Fellowship, Graduate Pedagogy Development (Winter - Spring 24)
Chicanx Studies Research Cluster Grant, Dolores Huerta Research Center (Fall 23)
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Conference Grant, Dolores Huerta Research Center (Spring 2023)
Fellowship, Crossing Latinidades Summer Research Initiative (Summer 23)
Graduate Student Fellowship, National Humanities Center for Virtual Institute (Winter 23)
Archival Methods Research Cluster Grant, Dolores Huerta Research Center (Fall 22)
Publishing Fellowship, Los Angeles Review of Books (Summer 22)
Regents Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz (Fall 21)
Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program, The California State University (Summer 21)
Invited Lectures
"Utilizing AI as a Classroom Resource." Equitable Course Design (GRAD 215) in The Learning Center (TLC), University of California Santa Cruz, May 2025.
"Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum: Professionalization in Higher Education." Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) Doctoral Summer Bridge Program, University of California Santa Cruz, August 2023.
"An Introduction to Interview Guides and Protocols." Social Science Analytics Course in Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, May 2023.
Panel Presentations
"The Abuelas Project: Exploring Sites of Latinx Grief, Joy, and Resistance Along California Route 66." El Congreso: Latinos in Heritage Conservation, August 8-11, 2024, San Diego, CA.
"Mapping Everyday Mexicana/Chicana Political Organizing: Reflections from Arizona Borderlands." National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, April 27-24, 2024, San Francisco, CA.
"Digital Humanities in the Borderlands." Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Voices in the Borderlands Symposium, March 22, 2024, Arlington, TX
"Modalities of Knowledge Distribution: Utilizing Arts-Based Approaches in an Ethnic Studies Classroom." UCSC The Learning Center Teaching Symposium, February 27, 2024, Santa Cruz, CA.
“Defamiliarizing Disciplinary Exercises: Creative Writing in Non-Literature Classrooms.” All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference, October 26-28, 2022, Santa Cruz, CA.
Round Table Presentations
"Latinx Feminist Practices of Digital Memory Work as Care." National Women's Studies Association, November 14-17, 2024. Detroit, MI.
"The Geographies of Research: Who Gets to be in Academic Literature?" University of California Santa Cruz, McHenry Library Digital Scholarship Symposium, May 25, 2023, Santa Cruz, CA.
“Higher Education and Gender Inclusive Housing: From Social Discrimination to Surviving a Pandemic.” California Sociological Association, November 11-12, 2022, Virtual.
Accepted but Unable to Attend: "Latina Feminisms and Youth From a Transnational Perspective." Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, January 27-30, 2022, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.
"Constructing Community: San Fernando Valley Youth and Community Activism." California State University, Northridge Graduate Research Symposium, April 9, 2021, Virtual.
"Politics Amidst a Pandemic: Activism in the Time of Corona." Pacific Sociological Association, March 17-2021, Virtual.
"Feeling Fatigue: How Black Lives Matter Activists Experience Burnout in the Time of COVID." Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, January 27-31, 2021. Virtual.
Book Reviews
Jimenez-Bayardo, Brittney. 2023. Book Review of Spectacle and Diversity: Transnational Media and Global Culture, by Lee Artz. Lateral Journal of the Cultural Studies, 12(1).