I am a Postdoctoral Associate at the Identity and Conflict Lab at Yale University. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2026.

I study how conflict and social mobilization reshape citizenship and rights in the Global South, with a regional focus on Latin America. My research asks how civil society builds channels of bargaining, accountability, and inclusion within authoritarian or incompletely democratic regimes — and how the openings created by upheaval become institutionalized or foreclosed over time. I focus on the politics of gender as a revealing lens into state–society relations and political exclusion. My book project, Women After Revolution, examines the trajectories of women’s citizenship after social revolution, showing why some revolutionary regimes embed women’s rights in durable institutions while others retrench. Methodologically, my work combines mixed causal inference and computational methods with comparative historical analysis, drawing on large-scale administrative, survey, and archival data from extensive fieldwork across Cuba, Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico, and Côte d’Ivoire.

My research has been supported by the American Political Science Association, the Tinker Foundation, Soroptimist International, the American Association of University Women, the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, the Department of Education through the Center on Latin American and Caribbean Studies, as well as the Berkeley Center for the Study of Law & Society, the Institute of International Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and the Center for Effective Global Action, among others.

I have worked as an advisor to high-level officials at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and consulted on issues related to gender violence, migration, and water politics for the UNODC, the World Bank through the Berkeley Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and US-based non-profit organizations. I hold a Master’s Degree in Applied Development Economics from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s in International Relations and the Global Economy from the University of Southern California.

I was born in Mexico City and immigrated to Los Angeles, CA, with my family when I was 12. I am a proud first-generation college graduate.