I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where I earned my bachelor’s degree from the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus. As a Future Faculty Fellow, I have advanced my doctoral studies at Temple University, majoring in Hispanic Linguistics and pursuing a graduate certificate in Cultural Analytics. My scholarly work revolves around contributing to the understanding of marginalized languages in education, language planning and policy, and linguistic identities. My mixed-method research spans across Hispanic and Portuguese sociolinguistics, dialectology, and languages in contact. I am particularly interested in examining how linguistic ideologies are created and maintained by analyzing sociolinguistic variables and language usage. Recently, my work has focused on documenting and assessing culturally responsive language teaching strategies in multilingual communities.