About

Researcher of demographic methods, spatial-temporal models, and the Chicano experience. I started getting interested in demography and population studies while working for the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology at the National Institute of Child Health and Development doing data collection for a logitudinal study concerning the effects of early life trauma on adolescent and adult health. I was then a fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle working on the Global Burden of Disease Project as an algorithm and statistical methods developer. I have also had the opportunity to work alongside some great people at Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública contributing to small area estimates for child mortality across Mexico. This led to the development my Masters In Public Health thesis at the University of Washington.

I am currently completing my PhD in Sociology at the University of Washington where I am continuing to work on small area estimates of demographic indicators. I am also exploring using non-traditional data sources, such as social media and other digital data, to estimate migratory stocks and flows alongside researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.