Welcome to my website!

I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Ph.D. Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration in the Department of Government at Harvard University. I am affiliated with the Center for American Political Studies, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the WCFIA Canada Program.

I plan to be on the 2025-2026 academic job market!

I study how diversity, inequality, and exclusion shape elections, public opinion, and voting behavior. My research agenda involves (re)assessing contextual effects in politics, reducing prejudice through persuasion, and—for my dissertation—understanding how and why identity politics mostly caters to affluent voters, not those it claims to represent. More broadly, I am interested in race and ethnic politics, migration and citizenship, class and inequality, survey methodology, experimental research, and metascience. See my research page for my publications, working papers, and ongoing projects.

I am a Mexican-born French Canadian studying American politics. I am also a 1.5-generation immigrant and first-generation student. Before coming to Harvard, I received excellent research training at l'Université de Montréal, where I was a member of the Research Chair in Electoral Studies and the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. 

In my spare time, you can likely catch me on a very long walk around the Boston area. I enjoy cooking and baking, architecture, the violin, 1960s Judy Garland, and strong female leads.