I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2021. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Sociology Department. As a socio-legal scholar, my focus encompasses international migration, immigration detention, race and ethnicity, and health. My research examines the social, material, and health repercussions of immigration detention and surveillance for immigrants, their families, and communities.

I am a policy fellow at the Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative. In the past, I served as a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology Department and a visiting scholar at the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. Additionally, I was a Marvin Hoffenberg fellow at UCLA’s Center for American Politics and Public Policy.

My work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Law and Society Review, American Behavioral Scientist, and Social Problems. My research has received generous support from several grants and fellowships, including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, the Dorothy L. Meier Dissertation Fellowship, and the Ronald E. McNair Fellowship.

Presently, I am immersed in a book project. This work delves into the profound ways in which immigration detention and surveillance are reshaping the lives of immigrant families and communities in the U.S. I trace the experiences of immigrants post-detention, highlighting how immigration enforcement policies impact their journeys through family reunification, community incorporation, life under ICE surveillance, and navigating the immigration court system.