All photos captured by author. Website updated in 2025. | CC BY- NC 4.0
I work with tense hope as an educator, researcher, and photographer.
My research examines and amplifies the rhetorical ways in which racialized communities, especially folks at the US-Mexico border, compose themselves in educational, digital, and legal spaces.
My teaching approach emphasizes rhetorical expression, polyvocal collaboration, and social attunement.
Through public writing, I use humanistic approaches to address issues in education, work conditions, and im/migration.
I photograph my environment to frame proximal intimacies, food cultures, and border expressions.
I'm Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
I grew up at the Brownsville-Matamoros border, so I use the border geography as a way to understand global forces.
All photos captured by author. Website updated in 2025. | CC BY- NC 4.0