Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Davis since 2004 (previously at Tulane University). Coordinator since 2016 of the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation: http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/en/. Deputy Director of Global Migration Center (https://globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/) since 2020. Specialist in Mexican and Mexican American studies, migration studies (context of Central America-Mexico-US corridor), gender/sexuality studies.