I am a Latina feminist researcher, educator and activist currently completing my PhD in education at the University of Toronto with a collaborative specialization in Women and Gender Studies.

As a critical feminist scholar, I am interested in the relationship between power, knowledge, and culture. Specifically, I bring an interdisciplinary lens to understanding the role of cultural production in social and educational processes and their implication for the production and justification of social (in)justice and (in)equality. My research expands three areas: First, the way that marginalized individuals and groups resist and challenge injustice; second, the way that cultural practices create opportunities for people to imagine themselves differently; and third, the role of educational and cultural institutions in the (re)production of inequality.

My doctoral thesis – “Weaving Women’s Stories: Colombian Women’s Use of Textile-based narratives as Public Memory Pedagogies” – examines how Colombian women use of textile-based narratives to visibilize their individual and collective demands for truth and justice. My approach to research is interdisciplinary, drawing on educational research on social movements, gender studies, and memory studies.

I was a Graduate Fellow at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, where I focused on the representations of urban life through the textiles of Indigenous, Black and marginalized women in Colombia.

Previously, I worked on two research projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). As part of the Youth Research Lab, I collaborated with university researchers and school staff to train Indigenous and Latin American high school students in Indigenous and decolonial methodologies. Additionally, I worked on the comparative international project, “Peace-building Citizenship Learning” project focused on peacebuilding citizenship education in Mexico and Canada. Currently, I am part of the editorial team at Curriculum Inquiry and a teaching assistant for the Centre for Critical Development Studies at University of Toronto Scarborough.

I have published research (or forthcoming) in academic journals including Education Policy Analysis Archives in addition to public platforms such as The Conversation Canada.