I am a PhD student in the Geography, Environment, & Urban Studies department at Temple University, and my research interests examine how migrants navigate survival, care, and social reproduction across migration corridors in Central America, Mexico, and the US borderlands. I focus on the emotional geographies of migration, including how people map safe and unsafe spaces, create micro-spaces of care in hostile environments, and interpret more-than-human forces such as rivers, forests, and climate as both danger and constraint.
 

My work analyzes the fragile care and social reproduction infrastructures that migrant women and unaccompanied children build and rely on as they navigate gendered violence and environmental threats across multi-scalar border environments.

Grounded in feminist and postcolonial theory, my research examines racialized border violence, colonial displacement, and im/mobility. I conceptualize borderlands as material, symbolic, and emotional spaces where families are separated, care infrastructures are strained or improvised, mobility categories (such as “migrant” and refugee”) are used to discipline movement, and survival strategies emerge in response to overlapping forms of violence.

Faculty Advisor: Melissa Gilbert

I
have an MA in international development studies from the George Washington
University and previously worked in the international development sector.