I am a PhD Candidate in Rural Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. My research examines how gender, migration, and legal precarity shape healthcare access and caregiving among immigrant farmworker families, with a focus on agricultural and rural contexts.
I hold an MSc. in Rural Sociology and International Agriculture and Development from Penn State, where my thesis examined participatory, Gender Transformative development projects in rural Honduras, and a BSc. in Socioeconomic Development and Environment from Zamorano University in Honduras.
Across my research, I'm committed to public-facing and community-engaged scholarship that informs policy, extension, and advocacy related to farmworker health, food systems, and gender equity.
Investigates how rural disinvestment and institutional neglect produce patterned health inequities among rural communities, and how families build informal infrastructures of care in response.
Examines how migration, legal precarity, and agricultural labor conditions shape wellbeing over time within rural communities, with attention to gender, youth, and intergenerational dynamics.
Analyzes how development policies, food and nutrition initiatives, and agrarian change reshape women’s responsibilities, empowerment, and economic lives.
