My research and teaching program is organized around the theme of ‘politics beyond the human’. Broadly conceived, my work seeks to expand the realm of the political beyond both anthropocentrism and humanism. It does so by learning from and engaging with alternative ways of relating to the multiplicity of beings, ecosystems, and interconnected webs of life on Earth. My main goal is to extend ethics and politics beyond dominant understandings of ‘the human’, and thus to deparochialize and to ecologize political thought.

I am currently working on rethinking how to conceive of thought and knowledge beyond the conventionally understood human-animal mind. In this work, I focus particularly on Aztec (Mexica), Nahua, and more broadly Mesoamerican metaphysics and aesthetics.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.

I am also a member of the Groupe de Recherche en Éthique Environnementale et Animale. I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique & the CRC in Feminist Ethics (2022-2023), and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University (2020-2022). I received my PhD in Political Theory from the University of Victoria, British Columbia (2020). I was born and raised in Mexico City.