I am an assistant professor at Harvard’s Government Department. My research focuses on Racial and Ethnic Politics (REP) in the U.S, with an emphasis on Latinx politics, immigration, and policing. I received my PhD in political science from the University of California-Los Angeles.

My book project, In the Shadow of Deportation: How Immigration Enforcement Shapes The Politics of Latinx Communities , examines how an increasingly restrictive immigration context motivates progressive political commitments among Latinxs despite countervailing conservative predispositions and assimilative pressure to adopt Anglo white political norms. The book project uses 20 representative Latinx surveys from 2007-2024 (N = 43,000), survey experiments, large tracking polls, and plausibly causal research designs to challenge canonical theories of immigrant assimilation and provide evidence threatening immigration enforcement contexts forestall political assimilation with Anglo whites among Latinxs along multiple dimensions.

My research is forthcoming or published in the American Political Science Review ; Political Research Quarterly ; Political Behavior ; the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics ; the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies ; and the UCLA Law Review.

I have also served as an expert consultant on multiple lawsuits related to immigrant rights and immigrant incorporation including New York vs. ICE and New York vs. United States Department of Commerce.