I am a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley, working at the intersection of visual anthropology, memory studies, and archival practices in post-conflict Perú. 

Through participatory,  multi-modal ethnographic fieldwork, I investigate how occult archives and hidden photographs reveal alternative forms of historical testimony. My work considers visual materials as sites of resistance, survival, and ongoing negotiations of traumatic pasts.

My research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, Tinker Foundation, and Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library with funding from Arcadia. I have published in academic journals and co-authored the first trilingual Quechua-Spanish-English dictionary in the United States. As an award-winning educator and curator, I am committed to collaborative and feminist practices that bridge academic research with community engagement.