About

I am a P’urhépecha descendant and doctoral candidate at UCLA whose research examines how Indigenous communities use media to sustain collective life across borders. My scholarship sits at the intersection of Indigenous studies, migration studies, and media studies, with a focus on P’urhépecha (im)migrants in the United States.

My dissertation explores how P’urhépecha communities use digital media to maintain relationships, circulate language and cultural knowledge, participate in communal practices, and remain connected to communities of origin. I am particularly interested in how media can become a space where Indigenous people negotiate territory and belonging, reproduce and transform community practices, and imagine futures beyond the geographic boundaries of the nation-state.

More broadly, my research examines Indigenous media, migration and transnationalism, digital cultures, community, territory, and Indigenous futurity. Through this work, I am interested in understanding media not only as a tool for communication and representation, but as a space through which Indigenous communities enact relationships, sustain collective life, and imagine their futures.