I am a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research lies at the intersection of place-making, homeownership, rights to urban space, and urban inequality. I investigate how neighborhoods are produced, how communities understand and enact rights to urban space, and how these processes function to generate, maintain, or moderate neighborhood inequality. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Regional and International Studies, the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, the Fulbright Student Program, and the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award.

Standing at the Mexico-Guatemala border.