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My current research uses ethnographic methods to investigate QTPOC (Queer & Trans People of Color) agricultural collectives and land projects as exercises of antiracist and anticapitalist queer ecological kinship. My work merges theoretical studies in queer-of-color ecology with material practices of QTPOC world building, space making, and utopic actualization. Additional areas of interest include environmental disability justice, queer-of-color spatiotemporalities, feminist political ecology, and queer-of-color affect studies.

I have extensive experience in, and a deep commitment to, anti-racist and equity-oriented teaching, mentorship, curriculum development, and research practices.

Past research projects have included:

1. investigating strategies of resistance among queer and trans climate-induced migrants from Puerto Rico and Central America
2. a mixed-methods environmental health study of childhood asthma among Spanish-speaking residents of the South Bronx
3. a quantitative analysis of the environmental justice impacts of California electric vehicle policy