About Me
I am an anthropologist at the University of Oxford passionate about understanding the human experiences behind development and humanitarian projects—that is, the social, cultural, political, and historical dynamics that underpin livelihoods, mold communities, and in turn, shape the effectiveness of our interventions. Attending to the structural factors, listening carefully to the beneficiaries of these development institutions, and working in solidarity with them to design and create programs are central parts of my approach to development.
Over the past 7 years, I have worked on private-sector healthcare in the USA, collaborative research methods with Indigenous communities in Malaysia, tuberculosis programs in Peru, antibiotic resistance in Jordan, Sudan, and Egypt, and migrant rights in Colombia and Venezuela, among other areas. My current PhD research, which I will complete in early 2024, is focused on the role of gender in refugee contexts and the integration of elderly, low-income, Venezuelan migrant women living at the Colombia-Venezuela border.
I have long worked to build new, strategic organizations and interventions that support vulnerable populations across the globe. At present, I am the Founder and Director of Vamos Chamo, a nonprofit that uses innovative technology to address crucial information gaps in Venezuelan migrant communities and help them make safer, more informed decisions about where to migrate in the Americas. In this capacity, I have accrued extensive experience in development project design and management, monitoring and evaluation, systems and operations, and relationship management and partnerships.
For this work, I have been awarded the Future Global Leaders Fellowship, Jack Kent Cooke International Award, Gateway Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fellowship, John F. Kennedy Memorial Award, Forbes Under 30 Award, Brasenose Senior Hulme Fellowship, and over $350,000 in research grants. I have published pieces with New York Daily News, HuffPost, El Espectador, Common Dreams, Global Health NOW, and the Daytona Beach News-Journal and contributed to pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Humanitarian, and ABC Action News.
Over the past 7 years, I have worked on private-sector healthcare in the USA, collaborative research methods with Indigenous communities in Malaysia, tuberculosis programs in Peru, antibiotic resistance in Jordan, Sudan, and Egypt, and migrant rights in Colombia and Venezuela, among other areas. My current PhD research, which I will complete in early 2024, is focused on the role of gender in refugee contexts and the integration of elderly, low-income, Venezuelan migrant women living at the Colombia-Venezuela border.
I have long worked to build new, strategic organizations and interventions that support vulnerable populations across the globe. At present, I am the Founder and Director of Vamos Chamo, a nonprofit that uses innovative technology to address crucial information gaps in Venezuelan migrant communities and help them make safer, more informed decisions about where to migrate in the Americas. In this capacity, I have accrued extensive experience in development project design and management, monitoring and evaluation, systems and operations, and relationship management and partnerships.
For this work, I have been awarded the Future Global Leaders Fellowship, Jack Kent Cooke International Award, Gateway Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fellowship, John F. Kennedy Memorial Award, Forbes Under 30 Award, Brasenose Senior Hulme Fellowship, and over $350,000 in research grants. I have published pieces with New York Daily News, HuffPost, El Espectador, Common Dreams, Global Health NOW, and the Daytona Beach News-Journal and contributed to pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Humanitarian, and ABC Action News.
Professional InterestsCapacity-Building Efforts
Humanitarian Localization Human-Centered Design Humanitarian Governance Latin America Gender Analysis 
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Currently thinking about...
The role of youth activism
The politics of "solving" global challenges
Political alternatives & revolution
How to responsibly amplify marginalized voices
Anthropology beyond the academy
Problematic gaps between development workers & beneficiaries
The politics of "solving" global challenges
Political alternatives & revolution
How to responsibly amplify marginalized voices
Anthropology beyond the academy
Problematic gaps between development workers & beneficiaries