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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education’s Equity, Bilingualism, and Biliteracy program. I am interested in the intersections of language, education, political economy, and im/migration from sociolinguistic and ethnographic perspectives. I study how language is used in social interaction to articulate and construct experiences of race, class, gender, sexuality, culture, and citizenship in transnational contexts. My research includes work with Latinx and Caribbean diasporic students in the United States and with diverse social and cultural groups across the Caribbean. My dissertation research in the Dominican Republic was supported by a Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, and NAEd/Spencer Dissertaion Fellowship. I am an active member of the American Anthropological Association (Council on Anthropology and Education, Society for Linguistic Anthropology), American Association for Applied Linguistics, and Comparative and International Education Society (Language Issues SIG).