I am an interdisciplinary scholar and filmmaker with a background in history, sociology, and anthropology. 

Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American and Caribbean history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 

My dissertation, entitled From Dispossession to Reservation: Indigenous Nations and the Colonization of Colombian Amazonia in the Twentieth Century, analyzes the colonization of the Colombian portion of the Amazon rainforest and its impact on the Indigenous population after the Putumayo rubber boom (1890-1930). In particular, it focuses on the Murui-Muina people, an Indigenous nation that inhabits an extensive area between the Putumayo and Caquetá rivers, at the border between Colombia and Perú.

I have received funding for my dissertation research from the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the ZEIT-Stiftung Foundation (Germany), and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 

I am the producer and scripter of the documentary The Way Back to the Maloca, which highlights the efforts of the Murui-Muina people to recover their traditional culture after the rubber boom and pass it down to the new generations.