Courses Taught
- WGS 100 Women's Lives: Race, Class, & Gender
- WGS 225 Constructing Gender and Sexuality
- WGS 305 Mothering, Work, and Reproductive Justice
- WGS 336 Women and Film
- WGS 391 Methods and Scholarships in Women's Studies
- WGS 394 Latina/x Feminist Thought & Culture
- WGS 400 Feminist Theories
Research Interests
- Economic violence, racial capitalism, labor studies, poverty policy
- U.S. women of color and transnational feminisms
- Latina/Chicana/Boricua feminism & culture
- Queer of color critique, critical sexuality studies, reproductive justice
Selected Publications
“She's Been Doing Everything Right: Mothers of Color and Economic Violence." Forthcoming in Women, Gender, and Families of Color.
“'Noble Mothers' and their Others: Racialized Women Entrepreneurs and Poverty Finance." Journal of International Women's Studies, 22(7), 69-82, July 2021. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss7/6
“Puerto Rico." Women's Lives Around the World: In Women's Lives Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, Susan Shaw, Nancy Barbour, Patti Duncan, Krynn Freehling-Burton, and Jane Nichols, Eds. ABC-CLIO, 2018.
“Thinking Outside the Check-Box." Women's Voices, Feminist Visions, 6th ed, edited by Susan Shaw and Janet Lee, Eds. McGraw Hill, 2014, 55-56.
“Complex Identities: Multiracial Feminists Challenge Binaries." Women's Voices, Feminist Visions, 5th edited by Susan Shaw and Janet Lee, Eds. McGraw Hill, 2011, 46-47.
Academic Works in Progress
Privatizing the Welfare Queen in the Age of Entrepreneurship: Racialized Women in Global Poverty Policy. Book manuscript, in progress.
Education
○ PhD, Gender Studies, minor Latino Studies, Indiana University
○ MA, Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies, Oregon State University
○ BA, Women's Studies, California State University Long Beach
Professional Affiliations
- National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
- Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)
- Critical Ethnic Studies Association
- Latino Studies Association
- Working-Class Studies Association