Research

Research Affiliations

• Research Assistant at the Center for Guaranteed Income Research in the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice

• AFS Intercultural Programs Course Validator for the Center for Social Impact Strategy in the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice

• The International Society for Quantitative Ethnography’s 5th Annual QE Community Data Challenge: Transparency in Best Practices and Challenges in 2024

• The International Society for Quantitative Ethnography’s 4th Annual QE Community Data Challenge: QE as a reflective lens on global culture in 2023

• Patent No. US-11735294-B2. Client Management Tool System and Method. Issued August 22, 2023

Fellowships

• 2021-2025 Fontaine Fellow, Fontaine Society at the University of Pennsylvania

• 2021-2023 Perry World House Graduate Fellow 

• Fall 2022 Turner Schulman Graduate Fellowship from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity Race & Immigration

• Spring/Summer 2023 Turner Schulman Graduate Fellowship from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity Race & Immigration

• Summer 2023 Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Research Grant

• Doctoral Consortium in Melbourne, Australia, at the International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography 2023, funded by the International Society for Quantitative Ethnography, which is partially funded by the National Science Foundation

• 2023-2025 Penn-Birmingham Transatlantic Fellow in the Penn-Birmingham Transatlantic Migration Fellowship Program

• 2024 Penn IUR Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium Research Grant and Mentor

• 2024-2025 Fellow in the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Publishing Fellows Program 

2022-2024 Presentations

• Presented "Bridging Gaps: Advancing Multilingual Quantitative Ethnography to Unveil Latinx Socioeconomic and Educational Diversity" at the International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography 2024 in Philadelphia, PA

• Presented "Connections and Contributions: Unveiling the Economic Impact of Latinx Immigrant Women in Philadelphia Through  Multidisciplinary Analysis" at the International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography 2024 in Philadelphia, PA

• Presented "Multinational Latinx Narratives and the Economic Contributions of Immigrants in Philadelphia: Integrating Multidisciplinary Research and Epistemic Network Analysis" at the IRIS International Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Presented "Mexican Immigrants Strengthening Philadelphia: A Transnational Mixed Methods Approach" at the Penn Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Graduate Student Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA

• Presented "Envisioning Latinx Narratives in Philadelphia: Exploring Immigrant Perspectives Using Epistemic Networks by Geospatial Location" at the 2024 International Conference on Urban Affairs in New York, NY

• Presented "Mapping Mexican Immigrants’ Relationship to Economic Development in South Philadelphia Using Conventional Research Methods and Instagram" at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 2023 Annual Conference in Chicago, IL

• Presented "Envisioning Latinx Narratives: Exploring Mexican and Honduran Immigrant Perspectives Using Epistemic Networks by Geospatial Locations" at the International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography 2023 in Melbourne, Australia

• Presented "Exploring Latinx Transnationalism in Philadelphia: Populations and Restaurants" at the 2023 Penn IUR Urban Doctoral Symposium in Philadelphia, PA

• Organized the “Vitality: Immigrants Strengthening Urban Areas” roundtable discussion at the 2023 Urban Affairs Association Conference in Nashville, TN

• Moderated “Doing Better: Planning Policies and Equity” for the 2023 National Planning Conference, an Online Panel Discussion

• Social Impact Through a City Planning + Spatial + Tech Lens for the Drake University Sustainability and Resilience undergraduate course in Des Moines, IA

• Presented “Which City Planning Conditions in Philadelphia, PA, Support an Emerging Latinx Population?” at the 2023 American Association of Geography Annual Meeting in Denver, CO

• A panelist for “Comparing Place-based Approaches to Understanding Immigrant Integration Experiences in Canadian and U.S. Second/Third-Tier Cities” at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 2022 Annual Conference in Toronto, Ontario

• Presented “Promesas Rotas / Broken Promises” at the 2022 Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean Conference in Philadelphia, PA

• Presented “Where Do Latinx People Live?” at the 2022 Penn IUR Urban Doctoral Symposium in Philadelphia, PA