About Me

Welcome! I am a PhD Candidate in political science at Stanford University. My research examines political behavior and race, ethnicity, and identity in the U.S. using machine learning and causal inference techniques.

My dissertation focuses on the ethnoracial identities of Latinos, who make up one in five individuals in the U.S. and complicate prevailing understandings of race and ethnicity. Using surveys, interviews, and administrative data, I explore the multiple ways Latinos identify their race in the U.S., how and why these ethnoracial identities are linked to political attitudes, and how they are socially constructed. In other projects, I examine Latino partisanship and immigration attitudes, racial fluidity, and political campaign rhetoric on immigration and Latinos.

At Stanford, I am a Graduate Scholar-in-Residence at El Centro Chicano y Latino and a fellow with the Center for American Democracy. I am a 2026 receipient of the Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award and 2023 recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. I received my A.B. summa cum laude in Politics and Latino Studies from Princeton University, where I was awarded the John G. Buchanan Prize for the highest standing in the Department of Politics.

Born and raised in Miami to Cuban parents, I am a proud graduate of Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Outside political science, I enjoy running, going on multi-day hikes, discovering new recipes, and reading in Portuguese.