I am a first-year PhD student in Anthropology, working alongside Dr. Don Nelson on an NSF-funded project in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The project focuses on developing impact-based flood forecasts for the San Juan Estuary by incorporating local experiences and future-visioning to inform these forecasts.

I graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Sustainability in 2023 and an M.S. in Sustainability in 2026. For my master’s thesis, I explored women’s perceptions of pluvial flooding through semi-structured interviews and participatory mapping in Mérida, Mexico, with local residents of Juan Pablo II.

My current research interests focus on exploring flooding events as catalysts for changing socioecological relationships in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and examining how local adaptive capacity emerges from these processes. As a proud Puerto Rican, I aim to engage with local communities in San Juan and help develop impactful, real-world solutions.