A focused record of scholarship and public work across labor, migration, oral history, and working-class power.
Current work
A concise view of the projects, writing, and presentations shaping the current stage of my doctoral work.
Research Aide IV to Dr. Ian Greer and co-author of the final report to the Tompkins County Legislature (September 2026), drawn from eight public convenings and six focus groups with workers, employers, and public agencies. Member of the ILR Ithaca Co-Lab.
Examining how worker centers build voice, leadership, coalition capacity, and durable power for migrant and low-wage workers.
Co-authored with Shannon Gleeson for the 50th Anniversary Special Issue on Latinx Labor Studies in Aztlán.
Presented at the LERA and American Sociological Association annual meetings; presenting at the Oral History Association meeting in October 2026.
I run the journal’s social media, sharing each new issue and open-access articles and connecting authors with readers.
Recognition
Selected awards and fellowships that have supported research, conference participation, and graduate training.
Cornell ILR · $750
Cornell ILR · $2,000
Migrations Program · Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies · $500
$1,250
Cornell Graduate School · $700
$500
University of Florida
Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
This is a selected web summary. The downloadable CV remains the authoritative and complete record.
Trajectory
The throughline is community-grounded research: from Chicago and Florida to Cornell and current worker-center scholarship.
A.A. with honors at Harold Washington College and B.A. in Spanish at Northeastern Illinois University, with research on Puerto Rican displacement and gentrification.
M.A. in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida and field research with the Farmworker Association of Florida.
Research coordination, public programs, teaching, and community fieldwork through the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
Ph.D. study in Global Labor and Work, connecting worker-center research with migration, race, and power-resource theory.
Selected record
The website offers the narrative; the full PDF preserves the exhaustive professional record.
Method in practice
Across interviews, archives, classrooms, and public programs, the work begins with listening and remains accountable to the people whose histories make the research possible.
Community-centered oral-history practice brings together participants, researchers, and audiovisual production as part of the academic method.
Complete record
The PDF is synchronized automatically from the maintained Google Doc and includes all appointments, presentations, programs, awards, service, and fieldwork.
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