About me

Welcome

I am an anthropologist and sociologist specializing in labor migration, racism, segregation, agrarian capitalism, and state formation.

I am a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, affiliated with the Division of Society and Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, I am an associate researcher on the FoodCircuits Project at the Universitat de Barcelona and a co-founding member of the Research Group Farmworkers in Northwestern Mexico.

I hold a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2024), an M.A. in social anthropology from El Colegio de Michoacán (2013), and a B.A. in sociology from the Universidad de Guadalajara (2010). For more than 15 years, I have been an active researcher, writer, and educator in the social sciences, conducting academic projects and policy evaluations, teaching at the higher and secondary education levels, facilitating workshops for public employees, and collaborating with civil society organizations.

My research examines how transnational corporations implement and celebrate socially responsible practices and how state agencies facilitate and cheer this agribusiness management style while migrant workers confront surveillance, confinement, racial hostility, and labor exploitation. I have analyzed this disputed process through ethnographic studies in contemporary plantations in western and northern Mexico. 

My publications present different aspects of agricultural labor: financial exclusion (Journal of Development Studies), memory and resistance (Revista Latinoamericana de Antropología del Trabajo), racial narratives (Revista del Noroeste de México), social policy (Carta Económica Regional), and spatial controls (Anthropology News). Currently, I am writing my first book manuscript, Farm Fascism: Race, Captivity, and Containment in Mexican Agribusiness.

My current research is a multi-sited collaborative ethnography with migrant farmworker-influencers in the United States and Mexico about the creation of self-narratives on social media that challenge discriminatory and injurious dominant discourses, while sharing everyday health-care practices and building transnational communities.