Biography

I grew up in Jurupa Valley, California and attended the University of California, Riverside, where I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Cultural Studies. My undergraduate education at UCR, combined with my experience as a visiting film studies student at Queen Mary University of London in 2019, provided me with the opportunity to study film in a stimulating interdisciplinary context. Combining sociohistorical and aesthetic methodologies, I developed my academic specialism, which is to analyze film form to interpret symbolism, metaphor, and philosophical meaning with the objective of exploring the representation of women in genre cinema. As a Film and Screen Studies student at Cambridge, I aim to expand upon my undergraduate research to produce scholarship that explores maternal horror in relation to the topics of motherhood, childbearing, and reproductive agency. Alongside my work in the academy, I plan to be a film producer, where I can champion nuanced, women-centered Latinx stories. I am deeply honored to be a Gates Cambridge Scholar and hope to pay it forward by ultimately creating a scholarship program of my own, one designed to provide vital resources and support to the next generation of arts and humanities scholars.