About Me

I am an American anthropologist (Ph.D. ‘25, University of Oxford) specializing in humanitarianism, migration and borders, political systems, and violence in Colombia and Venezuela. My doctoral work, currently being prepared for publication, explores how discourses of capitalism and socialism shape patterns of inclusion and exclusion for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian border state of La Guajira. Prior to this, I studied global health programming and humanitarian interventions, conducting ethnographic fieldwork at the World Health Organization (Egypt, Jordan, Sudan), Partners in Health (Peru), and the Florida Department of Health (USA). 

My scholarly publications have appeared in Medicine Anthropology Theory, Human Organization, the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies, the Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health, and other peer-reviewed outlets. For these works, I was selected as the winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s (LASA) Student Section Paper Competition and awarded 2nd place in the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Peter K. New Research Competition. While at Oxford, I was also honored as a Senior Hulme Scholar by Brasenose College. 

An independent scholar based in Medellín, Colombia, I teach at and collaborate with several universities. At present, I am a researcher at the Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid studying the Colombian armed conflict, peacebuilding, and decolonial methodologies. I have also taught courses on socialism, migration, and qualitative methods at Yale University and the University of Los Andes. 

Beyond academia, I have worked at several humanitarian and international development organizations. I am the Founder and Executive Director of Vamos Chamo, a nonprofit that uses technology to address crucial information gaps in Venezuelan migrant communities and help them make safer, more informed decisions about where to migrate. For this work, I have been awarded the Future Global Leaders Fellowship, Jack Kent Cooke International Award, Gateway Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fellowship, John F. Kennedy Memorial Award, Forbes Under 30 Award, and over $350,000 in research grants. I have published pieces with New York Daily News, HuffPost, The New Humanitarian, El Espectador, Common Dreams, and Global Health NOW and contributed to pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and ABC Action News.