I am an Ecuadorian scholar, educator, and interdisciplinary researcher whose work explores the intersections of Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, sociolinguistics, decolonial thought, and Digital Humanities.
My academic and community-engaged research focuses on Indigenous Kichwa communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the United States, examining environmental activism, language revitalization, migration, territorial defense, and collaborative forms of knowledge production. Through ethnographic fieldwork, audiovisual media, digital storytelling, and public-facing scholarship, I investigate how Indigenous communities mobilize cultural practices and collective memory to confront extractivist development and environmental injustice.
I earned my PhD in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies from the University of Miami in 2026, where I also completed graduate certificates in Digital Humanities and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. My dissertation, “Ñañapura: Embodied Resistance to Epistemic Erasure and Extractivist Development Among Kichwa Women in the Ecuadorian Amazon,” examines Indigenous feminist praxis and collective resistance among Kichwa women through interdisciplinary and collaborative methodologies.
In addition to my research, I have taught Spanish language, literature, and culture courses at the University of Miami, Texas Lutheran University, Northwest Vista College, and Texas State University. My teaching emphasizes interdisciplinary learning, cultural analysis, environmental justice, and student-centered pedagogical approaches.
My digital humanities and technical experience includes ArcGIS and StoryMaps, Omeka digital collections, GitHub web projects, audiovisual production, digital mapping, online pedagogy, and multimedia scholarship.
Areas of Research:
- Digital Humanities
- Indigenous Studies
- Indigenous Feminisms
- Environmental Humanities
- Latin American Studies
- Amazonian Studies
- Sociolinguistics
- Kichwa Diaspora in the United States
- Decolonial Studies
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Justice
- Latin American Literature
- Comparative Literature