I am a linguist and mentor at UC Riverside, where I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in Spanish Critical Sociolinguistics and Language Education in the LatCrit Sociocultural Linguistics Lab in the Center for Ideas and Society. I am also a community-based researcher and consultant through Restorative Research Consulting (RRC). I use best practices in program evaluation to provide the public with empirical findings about the benefits of rehabilitation and community-building. In both roles, I am guided by the tenets of Participatory Action Research to include key stakeholders in research process. My ultimate goals are offer opportunities to those who have the most to gain from equity-centered research and to drive progressive policy change with empirical findings.

I received my PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UC Berkeley, where I completed a dissertation entitled, Investigating Deficit Perspectives and Raciolinguistic Ideologies Through Language Attitude Study under the advising of Dr. Justin Davidson, wherein I used a raciolinguistic perspective to examine how listening subjects use their perceptions of race, gender, and alleged 'deficits' to form attitudes about language and people.  I am particularly invested in undoing damaging ideologies that prevent prevent people from maintaining their family's linguistic and cultural diversity.