I work in the Arts Administration Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. I have a PhD in Sociology from The New School for Social Research. I study the production of art and culture, with particular attention to how different forms of inequality are experienced and reproduced in art worlds.

In the past, I studied the production of film curatorship in the MoMA film department in New York City and Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City. Based on that research, I’m writing a book about strategic missions, labor practices, institutional “diversity,” and the role of infrastructure and design.

In my current project, I’m studying art markets in the US and its borderlands through the lens of Indigenous epistemologies to decenter the homogenous interpretation of aesthetic value that has dominated the sociology of art.

In New York City, I’m a cultural worker and member of Amplify Palestine.

In Peru, my native country, I’ve been developing an audiovisual archive in Chinchero, a rural Quechua town, since 2014. For this project, I have been using video to witness how the arrival of an international airport materializes through landscapes, built environments, and other forms of cultural expression, even years before the construction of the airport began.

My research work is and has been possible thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, Fulbright Program, Institute for Critical Social Inquiry, Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences, Janey Program in Latin American Studies, my parents’ love, and student debt. At The New School, I completed my doctoral degree thanks to a Dean’s fellowship and a dissertation award.