I am beginning my final semester of the M.A. program at Cal State Los Angeles. My research identifies hemispheric flows and diasporic connections between Los Angeles and east Asian financial markets, Latin American immigration, and evolving conceptions of community participation. My research focuses on networks utilized by landlords and tenants to shape the built environment. I will be presenting my findings this December at the Los Angeles City Historical Society.

I am also part of an interdisciplinary research team working on a USDA grant entitled Growing Food in the City: Urban Food Gardens for Research and Education. I am studying the San Gabriel Mission as a repository of climate-adapted and drought-tolerant plants and trees, grown for the last two hundred and fifty years. Both living plants and archival findings will be incorporated into a reference for plants grown on campus and made available to other urban agriculture initiatives in the city.

Studying urban history enables me to continue a rich tradition of scholarly social justice activism that works to expose our society's segregating forces.

• Environmental History

• Urban History

• Women and Gender Studies

• Tenant's Movements

• Labor Studies

• Borderlands Study