I am a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from The University of Texas at El Paso and currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Texas Tech University. I am a Mexican Latino scholar, designer–educator, and new media creator born and raised on the U.S.–Mexico border, between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso. I am also a Mellon Research Scholar contributing to Latinx Sound Cultures Studies, established in 2022 with support from the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Initiative program  at the University of Illinois Chicago through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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My interdisciplinary work bridges Rhetoric and Composition, Technical and Professional Communication, Digital Humanities, User Experience (UX), Sound Studies, and Border Rhetorics. I examine how digital, sonic, visual, and multimodal forms of communication shape identity, belonging, memory, and cultural expression, particularly within U.S.–Mexico border contexts.

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Through projects such as Border Soundscapes, I investigate how sound functions as an archive of place, memory, and community while exploring broader questions of communication design, storytelling, digital mapping, public humanities, and user-centered experiences across media environments. As an educator, I bring these interests into courses in writing, rhetoric, technical and professional communication, multimodal composition, UX-informed communication, digital media, and public-facing storytelling.