About Me

I am an American anthropologist (Ph.D. ‘25, University of Oxford) specializing in humanitarianism, migration and borders, and political-economic discourse in Colombia and Venezuela. My doctoral research, currently being prepared for publication, examines how competing discourses of capitalism and socialism shape patterns of inclusion and exclusion for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian border region of La Guajira. Prior to this, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork on global health and humanitarian interventions 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 between Medellín and Riohacha, Colombia, I have taught courses on humanitarianism, socialism, ethnography, migration, and qualitative methods at several universities including Yale University, Universidad de los Andes, and Universidad EAFIT. I am also the Director of the Sociedad Guajira de Antropología, an organization dedicated to advancing social science research in the Colombian border state of La Guajira. 

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 funding. 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.