I am a Faculty Fellow with the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the Department of Sociology at New York University. My research interests include culture, gender, sexuality, race, transnational sociology, and qualitative methods. I have conducted research in the U.S. and Latin America. You can learn more about my work here.

My research, teaching, and service work are shaped by a commitment to understanding and supporting the resourceful ways that people— particularly women and people of color—cope with and respond to the marginality that they experience in everyday life. I also strive to recognize the resilience, resistance, and joy that emerges from these responses.

I received my PhD in Sociology from Columbia, where I was a Paul F. Lazarsfield Fellow and a Provost’s Diversity Fellow. My work has also been funded by the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation GRFP, the Social Sciences Research Council, and the American Association for University Women, among others.

Previously, I worked with the CDC’s National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Study at the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, and was a Senior Research Assistant for the NIH Adolescent Trials Network at The Fenway Institute. I also worked as a Research and Planning specialist at Action for Boston Community Development.

I was born in the Dominican Republic, and was raised in South Florida. I graduated from Brown University in 2009 with a BA in History. At Brown, I was a Sidney E. Frank Scholar and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. In my free time I enjoy practicing yoga, surfing, weightlifting, traveling, and exploring New York City’s diverse neighborhoods and restaurants.