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I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice in the Law, Societies, & Justice Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. At UW, I am also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Environmental Politics, the Science, Technology, & Society Studies (STSS) Faculty Network, and the Center for the Study of Demography and Ecology (CSDE). I am also a Research Affiliate of the Human Contexts and Ethics of Data Program at UC Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. 

I am a researcher and educator at the intersection of critical environmental social sciences and science and technology studies. My work studies the political ecologies of extraction and toxicity and the politics of environmental knowledge, technology, and legal expertise in Colombia and Latin America. Broadly, I am interested in how science, technology, and the law shape and are shaped by people’s relations with their environments and resources, especially in polluted and extractive landscapes. I draw on concepts from political ecology, science and technology studies, and global environmental politics and use interpretive social science methods and qualitative analysis. 

My current research includes projects on the global governance of mercury and the "datification" of environmental education, science, and policy. My doctoral research studied the history and politics of mercury amalgamation in gold mining in Colombia and the broader circulation of said technique in the Americas over the last three centuries. My work has appeared in Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Ambix, and Triología: Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, as well as in several edited volumes, and has been funded by Fulbright, UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies, and the US Department of Education. 

I teach about global environmental politics, environmental justice, environment and society, and the socio-political dimensions of science, technology, and data. I have taught introductory courses on social sciences to STEM majors and law students and professional certificates in environmental law and policy. 

As part of my public scholarship, I have consulted for various research centers and environmental nonprofit institutions in Colombia and collaborated with various Indigenous and human rights organizations in Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. I serve on the board of the Colombia-based Center for Marine Justice and previously worked as the Research Director of Environmental Justice at the Center for the Study of Law, Society, and Justice (Dejusticia).

In 2022, I completed a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management with an emphasis on Society and Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. I also hold degrees in Geography and Law from the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia. Before joining UW in 2024, I was a Gerardo Marin Postdoctoral Fellow and an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco's International Studies Department.