I am a historian of modern Mexico. My work examines how the state built after the Mexican Revolution managed Indigenous autonomy, and how P’urhépecha and anarchist communities defended their land and self-government against it.

I grew up in Pacoima, a working-class immigrant community in Los Angeles. I learned there how institutions absorb and manage people, long before I found that logic named in the archives of rural Mexico.

I am a first-generation, transfer, and system-impacted scholar. I began at Los Angeles Pierce College and earned a B.A. in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, where I am now a Ph.D. candidate in History.

I have spent my adult life working with the communities that the same machinery routes toward jails, shelters, and foster placements. I have served foster youth and unhoused communities, worked as a death penalty mitigation specialist, and taught history to incarcerated students. I mean to hold the door for the students this machinery still tries to route out of the university.