As a Diversity Fellow, my goal is to help my fellow graduate students feel at home during their time at Princeton. I look forward to building spaces where we can engage with one another vulnerably and authentically and to collaboratively fostering a community where we recognize that our perspectives, backgrounds and voices matter.

At Princeton University working within the the History Department, my focus was on 20th Century U.S. political history. Before Princeton, I was based in our nation's capital working in the labor movement, and prior to that I went to college at the University of Chicago (MMUF and Quest Scholars hmu!). I am a proud son of Mexican immigrants, born…

I begged for my first chemistry set in the third grade after my grandmother had a mastectomy. I remember screaming with glee that my ‘magic potions’—rather than early 2000s medicine—had caused her remission. As I matured, I learned that deadly diseases like diabetes, cancer, and high blood pressure all devastate the Black community, including…