As a doctoral student at Virginia Tech studying rhetoric and writing, my focus is in risk communication, disaster rhetorics, and technical communication. My background in Queer and cultural rhetorics grounds the work I do in studying community responses to wildfire evacuations in California. My prior projects have focused on science denialism in wildfire policy, assessing the mapping program of California's Fire Hazard Severity Zones, and Queer methodologies in research practices with multi-marginalized climate refugees.

Presently I work in coastal resilience with the Virginia Tech Coastal Collaborator, engaging public and private stakeholders, coastal communities, tribal nations, and other Virginia Sea Grant Universities in resiliency efforts around issues like coastal resilience, risk assessments, climate change, community preparedness, disaster response, and data literacy. I have coauthored a report for NASA on data literacy in NASA programs being used by coastal data practitioners, and helped write grants for the EPA, NASA, NOAA, NFWF, NSF, and more.

I have been teaching in higher ed for eight years, teaching Technical Writing, Composition, Nonfiction Writing, and more. My three years teaching at Fresno State, a Hispanic Serving Institution, were foundational in shaping my relationship to students, my understandings of how privilege works in the classroom, and what equity in Education looks like.

Prior to pursuing my PhD I was an active community advocate in California's Central Valley, working with nonprofits in Queer communities, local tribes, and migrant student education. My work exists at the axis of community engagement and propelling ethical research practices.