Hello!

I am a Critical Medical Anthropologist, with interests primarily at the intersection of health, racial justice, and emergent formations of care in contemporary North America. My research has focused on the politics of healing in late liberal America, theorizing the possibilities for political resistance and persistence opened up through self-, community-, ecological and ancestral care in contexts of structural abandonment and environmental degradation.

This focus was nourished by my time with La Colectiva de Mujeres, a Chicana Indigenous women’s healing collective in Salinas, California, and my fellow Mujeres’ responses to the myriad overt and covert police killings and state violence in this agricultural city. I seek to glimpse the less-legible horizons of political struggle in our (utterly chaotic, painful, and provocative) midst and think through our potential complicities and involvements in these projects of intervening on the world.