About Me
As of July 2025, I am an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Amherst College. I wrote my PhD in French at UC Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Film and Media and certificates in Global Urban Humanities; Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education; and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Between 2023-2025, I was also an adjunct faculty member at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
I received my MA from Berkeley in 2020 and came into academia by way of an Honors BA in French and History at UT Austin. Before Berkeley, I also held a research internship at l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne-IV), Centre Roland Mousnier. I was in the 2017-2018 cohort for the Teaching Assistant Program in France (aka TAPIF) in Aubervilliers, France. I am thrilled to have received honorable mention from the Ford Foundation in 2023, as well as funding from the Mellon Foundation’s Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (Critical Digital Pedagogies Group) that same year.
At Cal, I was a Chancellor's Fellow and Gérard Fellow. I was a research assistant for the Universal Design Working Group in 2023, and I also undertook funded research with the Center for Race and Gender. I hold former affiliations with the Berkeley Transformative Justice Group and the Mellon-Berkeley Law and Humanities Symposium. I also won a 2025 summer dissertation grant through the Graduate Division.
More than anything, I'm a very proud first-generation student of Black/Pinay ancestry. I was raised and heat-tested in Texas. I have a penchant for coffee shops, cycling, and distance running. I’m learning how to play chess. Dementia awareness and advising mean a lot to me.