I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and the Science Studies Program at the University of California- San Diego and an incoming assistant professor of Design and Society in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I also hold an MA in Design Studies from Parsons School of Design and a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from PUCP. In my research and teaching, I draw together critical design studies, science and technology studies (STS), and information studies to examine the intersection of design practices, trade policy, and forms of political participation. My research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the National Science Foundation.
My current work investigates the interplay of overlapping sovereignty discourses and self-determination practices built around technology and the limits of these discourses and practices for producing better futures at sites of computing global supply chains. My book manuscript, Technology as Sovereignty: Hardware Technopolitics and Property Relations in Mexico, analyzes how different stakeholders in the global high-tech supply chain—hardware developers and tech manufacturing workers—construct technology as an instance of sovereignty in the Mexican Bajio, North America’s largest industrial corridor. My analysis explicits the tension between developers’ (and users’) claims of ownership over new forms of property and workers’ claims of personal rights over the bodies that produce them.
I also have two cats, one named Stela and another named Sergeant Pepper.