researcher. writer. data scientist.
i combine training in social psychology & data science and lived experience as an illegalized immigrant to:
produce research that uncovers injustices & unmet social needs
challenge research methods that reinforce hierarchies
translate advanced theory & analytics into strategy & social impact
UT Austin, Bs | Princeton, phd | harvard, postdoc
essays
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Gazing like a border
What does bordered perception attend to, seek out, surveil?
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becoming tables or borders
Every day, in every interaction, you have a choice: will you become a border, or will you become a table?
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your face dataset cannot be “racially” diverse
facial diversity cannot be racial diversity, so what are face datasets actually diversifying?
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outside(r)
the best compliment was being warned that i was trespassing disciplinary borders
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how survey researchers reinforce racialization
what if research methods are merely (re)producing caricatures of the people that we study as “racial groups”?
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(un)documentation & (dis)identification
Where and for whom is the undocumented immigrant?
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whiteness in statistics
Daniel Lakens, Robin Kok, Jazi Zilber were racist against woman asking for help
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hidden minority
i participated in a campaign that raised awareness for what it means to be a first-generation or underprivileged minority at princeton
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undocumented and capitalistic?
how should/would/could oppressed individuals in the U.S., who need to partake in the economy and system to get ahead, navigate this identity?
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the double-edged sword of minority success
People have normative ideas about how a minority should behave when they reach high status positions
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mixed effect models
I compiled a collection of papers and link and books that I used to self teach mixed effect regressions
my journey
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In September of 2017 the Trump administration announced it would begin to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which provides protections for individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as children. Since then, the University has engaged in a yearlong legal battle to protect DACA beneficiaries.
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There’s a minority group at Princeton that isn’t constrained to one gender, race or religion. They walk around campus unseen. The university claims their well-being is a significant priority—but some students say the school isn’t doing enough.
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This blog post is the third of eight in a follow-on to our “The future of computational social science is Black” series, about a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science organized by Howard University and Mathematica.
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