What is happening
Talks, publications, research, and community work, newest first. Open any post for what happened and what came of it.
Social media, ILR Review
I run the journal’s LinkedIn, X, and Bluesky accounts, sharing each new issue and its open-access articles and connecting authors with readers, and I report on the accounts at the editorial team’s meetings.
Read the story →Archive project
With two student research assistants, I am scanning the Tompkins Cortland Labor Coalition records held at Cornell’s Kheel Center to build an interactive, public archive on this site, alongside the Working Press collection.
Read the story →Invited speaker
Alice Cook House invited me to talk with undergraduate residents about community and labor organizing in Ithaca and Tompkins County.
Read the story →Co-author with Shannon Gleeson
Our chapter for the Handbook on Migration and Cities, edited by Jan Rath and Els de Graauw, looks at how city governments shape labor market inclusion and precarity for migrant workers, drawing on cases from the United States,…
Read the story →Presenter · Roundtable participant
I presented twice at the Oral History Association’s 60th Annual Meeting, “Landscapes of Memory,” in Portland. The first was a roundtable on the Underground Railroad Oral History Project with Deborah Hendrix, Ronan Hart, and…
Read the story →Co-author with Shannon Gleeson
Workers in the US have the right to the minimum wage, overtime, and a safe workplace, but those rights only mean something if someone enforces them. Latinx workers are among the most likely to see them go unenforced.
Read the story →Workshop leader
I led a staff training for the ILR Office of Engaged and Experiential Programs on building student-facing Canvas sites for its Engaged Learning Programs.
Read the story →Co-organizer & panel moderator
With support from the Migrations Program at Cornell’s Einaudi Center for International Studies, Vicente Celestino Mata, Jr.
Read the story →Research team · Ithaca Co-Lab
Following Resolution 2024-144, Tompkins County asked the Cornell ILR Ithaca Co-Lab to explore a countywide minimum wage above New York’s $16.00.
Read the story →Presenter
I workshopped my thesis, “Still a Union Town? Worker Power and Labor Field Regeneration in Tompkins County,” with the SOLE Workshop, whose members read the full draft ahead of the session.
Read the story →Panelist
I presented “Making the Impossible, Possible”: Coalitional Movement Infrastructures and the Fight for the NY Excluded Worker Fund in the Labor-Community Solidarity session.
Read the story →Institute participant
Selected with scholarship support for an intensive graduate institute on racial politics, democratic backsliding, authoritarianism, and institutional power.
Read the story →Presenter
I presented “Is Ithaca Still a Union Town?” at the Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting.
Read the story →Presenter
I presented “Field Generated Power Resources in Decentralized Labor Ecosystems” at the Global Labor and Work Department’s Graduate Student Symposium.
Read the story →Panelist
I joined Rebeca Hey-Colón, Paul Ortiz, Sofia Alexandra Meadows-Muriel, and Isabel Padilla to talk about what Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show meant for race, immigration, and colonialism in a dark political moment.
Read the story →Safety-patrol participant
I participated in a community safety patrol supporting immigrant neighbors alongside Indivisible, No Más Lágrimas, Ana Ortiz, and local partners.
Read the story →Participant · Doctoral researcher
The summer school treated ethnography as the disciplined construction of evidence rather than neutral data collection.
Read the story →Participant · Cornell researcher
I joined a cross-disciplinary cohort examining migration through geography, history, law, public health, and policy.
Read the story →Assistant Director, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
As Assistant Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, I helped lead week-long field programs in the Mississippi Delta.
Read the story →Visiting sites connected to Emmett Till helped us understand how memory lives in the landscape, and why confronting racial violence requires listening to the people who continue to carry that history.
Read the story →I documented one small part of a wider public struggle: immigrant workers, families, and allies standing together for dignity and belonging.
Read the story →Working with Ana Ortiz, No Más Lágrimas, and local partners reinforced that useful knowledge must also be accessible. Multilingual know-your-rights materials are one way it can move back into the community.
Read the story →I joined a community food giveaway in Ithaca as part of fieldwork and community service. The experience offered a grounded view of how local people meet immediate needs while sustaining relationships across the community.
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