AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
The Lourdes Benería Award, 2023.
The Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities at Cornell, 2023.
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Fellow Program at Cornell, 2023-2024.
The HASTAC Scholars Fellowship Program, Society for the Humanities, 2022-2024.
Graduate School Diversity Fellowship, Cornell University, 2022.
Mitchell Program’s U.S. Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation Fellowship, George Mason University, 2022.
Campus Election Engagement Project Fellowship, Northern Virginia, Campus Election Engagement Project, 2020-2021.
The Dean’s Challenge Award, George Mason University, 2020.
The Critical Language Scholarship, Indonesia, United States Department of State, 2019.
The Boren Fellowship, Indonesia, United States Department of State, 2018-2019.
OSCAR Research Scholars Program, “Photography as Time Travel” Project, George Mason University, 2016-2017.
Street Dreams Magazine Photography Prize to Photograph the Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY, 2016.
CONFERENCES
“The Living Archive Moves”, Interdisciplinary Conference, “Love, Violence, and Feminine Resistance: Dis-/placement, Reckoning, and Reconciliation” hosted by U.C. Santa Barbara, May 12, 2023.
“Exploring a Venesporic Lesbian Utopia in Fina Torres’ Liz in September”, Venezuelan Symposium, “(Re)Thinking Venezuela: Movement, Transit, Displacement” hosted by Cornell University, April 15, 2023.
“Photography as Queer Time Travel”, Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA), NeMLA’s 54th Annual Convention, “Resilience” hosted by the University of Buffalo, March 24, 2023.
“Black Lives Matter at the U.S. - Mexico Border: An Analysis of U.S. Immigration Media Narratives”, Presenter, LSA (The Latina/o Studies Association) Conference, “Centering Blackness, Challenging Latinidad” hosted by University of Notre Dame, July 13, 2022.
“Queering the Venespora”, Presenter, philoSOPHIA’s 15th Annual Conference, "Entangled Ecologies: The Climate of Justice" hosted by George Mason University, June 4, 2022.
“Photography as Time Travel”, Presenter, ASPECT (the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) Conference hosted by Virginia Tech, April 24, 2020 (canceled due to COVID-19).
“Photography as Time Travel”, Presenter, Graduate Research Symposium hosted by College of William and Mary, April 2018.
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Native and Bilingual Proficiency
Bahasa Indonesia: Advanced Proficiency
Portuguese: Elementary Proficiency