About Me

I was born and raised in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

In my academic and journalistic work, I describe the effect of state-led development initiatives in post-conflict Central America. I seek to understand better a region marked by similar historical processes.

I am currently working on two overlapping projects in the disciplinary subfields of political sociology and social movements. The first is regarding instruments of international law in post-conflict societies. The second is how social movements coordinate future-oriented collective action in a shaky temporal landscape marked by political and symbolic violence.

I write monthly op-eds in elPeriódico, one of Guatemala’s largest Spanish-language daily newspapers. Before this, I wrote a monthly column on CNN en Español commenting on contemporary Central America. My essays have appeared in outlets such as NACLA, El País, El Faro English, Agencia Ocote, the Global Observatory, the Latin Dispatch, Plaza Pública, and Nómada. I have been featured in articles in Americas Quarterly, Associated Press, the New Humanitarian, and de Volksrant.

I served as a Counsel in the Congressional Committee on Labor for the 9th Legislature of the Republic of Guatemala, with direct oversight on projects like the push for part-time labor and domestic workers’ rights, ILO’s Convention No. 175, and No. 189, respectively.