Tompkins County Minimum Wage Study
Research Aide IV to Dr. Ian Greer, supporting stakeholder outreach and public convenings with labor organizations, community groups, employers, and public agencies.
Curriculum Vitae
A focused record of scholarship and public work across labor, migration, oral history, and working-class power.
Current work
What I am working on now
A concise view of the projects, writing, and presentations shaping the current stage of my doctoral work.
Worker centers and infrastructures of power
Examining how worker centers build voice, leadership, coalition capacity, and durable power for migrant and low-wage workers.
Latinx labor rights and workplace enforcement
Co-authored with Shannon Gleeson for the 50th Anniversary Special Issue on Latinx Labor Studies in Aztlán.
From crisis to care, capacity, and collective power
Accepted presentations for the Oral History Association, American Sociological Association, and LERA meetings.
Recognition
Honors & research support
Selected awards and fellowships that have supported research, conference participation, and graduate training.
Industrial and Labor Research Award
Cornell ILR · $750
Industrial and Labor Relations Travel Grant
Cornell ILR · $2,000
Graduate Migration Fellow
Migrations Program · Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies · $500
Benjamin Miller Fellowship Award
$1,250
Conference Travel Grant
Cornell Graduate School · $700
Oral History Association Presenter Scholarship
$500
Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Champion Award
University of Florida
Ronald E. McNair Scholar
Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
This is a selected web summary. The downloadable CV remains the authoritative and complete record.
Trajectory
Education and research path
The throughline is community-grounded research: from Chicago and Florida to Cornell and current worker-center scholarship.
Chicago foundations
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.
Migration and community research
M.A. in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida and field research with the Farmworker Association of Florida.
Oral history leadership
Research coordination, public programs, teaching, and community fieldwork through the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
Cornell ILR doctoral work
Ph.D. study in Global Labor and Work, connecting worker-center research with migration, race, and power-resource theory.
Selected record
Four pathways through the work
The website offers the narrative; the full PDF preserves the exhaustive professional record.
Research & publications
- Worker centers, coalition infrastructure, and working-class power
- Latinx labor rights and workplace enforcement
- Oral history, language, and community partnership
Teaching
- African American and Latinx histories
- U.S. labor history and working-class cultures
- Community-based oral-history methods
Public scholarship
- Community programs and accessible historical interpretation
- Media interviews, public writing, and documentary work
- Workshops on oral history, archives, and migration
Fieldwork & community research
- 200+ oral-history interviews across multiple regions
- Mississippi and Arkansas Delta field programs
- Farmworker, civil-rights, and community memory projects
Method in practice
Research grounded in relationship
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 full curriculum vitae
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