I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of History studying the modern United States. My primary thematic interests are notions of "race" and "racism" between the Civil Rights Movement and 9/11; theories and realities of minority and immigrant assimilation; urban and suburban relationships in the age of urban renewal; and Latinos/as/xs in the United States.
My current project as a RITM Graduate Fellow analyzes the confluence of commercial practices and racial ideology in the making of a middle-class Mexican American suburb of Los Angeles. This expands a theme from my undergraduate thesis, "There Goes the Neighborhood? Civic Identity and the Making of the Mexican Beverly Hills, 1981-1998," which was awarded the 2019 Robert M. Golden Medal and Donald Kennedy Thesis Award. I earned my bachelor's degree in History with distinction and departmental honors from Stanford University in 2019.