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My work focuses on the poetics and politics of Latinx and Latin American fashion, arts, dress, and visual and material cultures. I specialize in critical fashion studies, with an emphasis on the intersections of race and class, popular aesthetics, the colonial legacies of fashion, representation, archives, and decolonial visualities across the hemisphere.

I am a doctoral candidate in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I hold a Master's in Cultural Studies from Universidad de los Andes and a Sociology degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

I authored Nostalgias y Aspiraciones (2021), a book on photographic archives, fashion, and class in Bogotá, and Estudios de la Moda en Colombia (2022), the first book on fashion studies in the country. I have also published several works in academic journals and edited volumes across Latin America, the United Kingdom, and the United States. I co-created the Nación Moda podcast, the first Diploma in Critical Fashion Studies in Latin America, and the first course on the History of Latin Fashion in the region, thus emerging as one of the most recognized critical voices on Latinx fashion.

As a writer and scholar within public and digital humanities, my narrative essays have been published in Harvard Review on Latin America, The Latinx Project, El País from Spain, El Malpensante, Arcadia, Cartel Urbano, and Cero Setenta. I also contribute my voice to radio, television, and digital media. Additionally, I have participated in curatorial, co-creative, and artistic projects where I aim to transform words into material action.

My work has been recognized with distinctions such as the Chancellor's Fellowship from the University of California, the The Andrew Mellon Grant for expanding Latinx Studies, the Crossing Latinidades Mellon Fellowship, the award for best thesis in Sociology at the National University in Colombia, the Colciencias Young Researchers grant, the Academic Excellence Scholarship from Universidad de los Andes, the Photography Research Scholarship from Colombia’s Ministry of Culture, and second place in the prestigious Emecé-IDARTES National Novel Contest.

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