I am a feminist researcher and Ph.D. Candidate in Politics and International Relations at Monash University. I am from Mexico City and currently live in Melbourne, Australia. My research focuses on gender-based violence and militarization in Mexico from a feminist political economy perspective.

 

I have ten years of experience advising and collaborating with feminist and racial justice organizations, such as the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the Center for Policing Equity (CPE), and Data Cívica. In 2022, I co-founded Internacional Feminista, a multilingual platform to advance critical dialogues on foreign policy, international relations, and gender. I frequently write about the Gender-Security-Climate triple nexus; Feminist Foreign Policy; the Women, Peace and Security Agenda; and police accountability. My work has been published by several international media outlets, such as the Yale Journal of International Affairs, the International Peace Institute's Global Observatory, the Chatham House's The World Today, and Nexos. I have also been featured in several podcasts, including the BBC's Women's Hour.

 

Before becoming a Ph.D. Candidate, I lived in Brooklyn, New York, where I worked full-time as a Senior Data Analyst for the Center for Policing Equity. I designed and spearheaded mixed research methods to make policing data more transparent, hold law enforcement agencies accountable, and reduce racial disparities in public safety outcomes. I have also served as a Policy Analyst at the Office of the Inspector General for NYPD; a Citizen Security and Justice Consultant for the Interamerican Development Bank; a Policy Adviser to the Speaker of the Senate of Mexico; and a Research Assistant for Professor Rohini Pande at the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

From 2017 to 2019, I completed my Master's in Public Policy at Harvard University as a recipient of the Fulbright-Garcia Robles scholarship. I concentrated on Economics and Political Development and specialized in feminist political theory, political economy, criminal justice, and advanced econometrics. I was the co-chair of the HKS Gender Policy Union and was a frequent contributor to the Kennedy School Review. After graduate school, I received a grant from the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard to participate in the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the UN General Assembly as a representative of the Feminist Task Force and Women's Working Group on Financing for Development. At that time, I also provided political and technical support to the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN on gender equality and women's human rights.

 

My Ph.D. is fully funded by the Monash International Tuition Scholarship and Monash Graduate Scholarship. I have also received several other scholarships and awards, including the Women in International Security 2021 Next Generation Fellowship, the 2017-2019 Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship, the 2019 Harvard Women and Public Policy Program Oval Summer Fellowship, the 2018 Harvard Dubin Center for Public Leadership Summer Fellowship, the 2017 - 2019 Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) Scholarship, the 2017 P.E.O. International Scholarship, the 2018 Harvard in Mexico Foundation Scholarship, and the 2015 Centro de Estudios Alonso Lujambio national essay award. I hold two Bachelor's Degrees in Political Science and International Relations with a special mention from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).