I am a community-engaged researcher and Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Pomona College. I hold a Ph.D. in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from UCLA and a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz with a double major in Feminist Studies and Community Studies.
My book project, *Domestic Codes: Latina Workers and the Data-Driven Politics of Care,* examines how contemporary care labor is shaped by technologies of surveillance and algorithmic control that reflect historical legacies of colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism. My work offers critical frameworks for understanding labor and technology in the 21st century. Centering workers’ viewpoints and strategies of resistance, my research also reveals subaltern practices of collective agency practiced by Latina domestic workers.
My writing has been published in *Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies,* *International Journal of Communication* and Critical Ethnic Studies. I have contributed to *Truthout*, *The Nation,* *Verso,* and the *New Left Review* and currently sit on the editorial board of *Spectre* where I are interested in tracing contemporary issues in Latinx labor and the intellectual history of Chicana Marxist thought.

Classes

Technofuturos: Chicanxs/Latinxs and Technology in Society and the Future

Course Description
1.25 hours.
This course offers students a survey of interdisciplinary tools to understand the intersections of Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Science and Technology Studies. In the early days of the internet, tech boosters purported that the connections afforded by the World Wide Web would make racial, gender, sexual, national difference obsolete. In the ensuing decades, scholars have sought to consider how inequality often persists or is deepened by high tech infrastructures. Through scholarship about Chicanx/Latinx life in the web of science and technology, students will develop their ability to analyze questions of power, (in)justice, and resistance and imagine radically alternative futures.

Syllabus
Chicanas and Latinas in Contemporary Society

Surveys the historical and contemporary experiences of Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S. with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, nationality, and how these intersect with gender, gender identities, sexualities, and class, in their lives as individuals and as members of communities.
The course centers Chicana/Latina agency and resistance in the US against the backdrop of historical and contemporary racism, colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy.

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Latinx Urbanism: Mexican and Central American Voices from Los Angeles

Lecture
2 hours.
This course examines key issues in urban poverty such as work, housing, and school and neighborhood segregation, with an emphasis on Mexican and Central Americans in Los Angeles. Students in this class can expect to learn about some of the major social conditions affecting people living in poverty, as well as the underlying social forces that contribute to them. We will learn about the political economy of poverty as well as the strategies that people living in poverty use to effect lasting social change, including policy and social movements.
This course invites students to listen deeply to the voices of Mexican and Central American people living in poverty in Los Angeles. Throughout the quarter, students will come up close and personal with the subjects of the course through readings, media, and invited speakers. A field exercise project will give students the opportunity to develop a research project with consideration for protocols for ethically and respectfully engaging with working class and impoverished Latinx communities.

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