I’m a PhD candidate in Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.   I received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University College Dublin (Ireland), and a master’s in Government from Harvard University.  I have worked as a teacher in the U.S. and in Chile, and in the U.S. labor movement. 

I am interested in the global dimension of social and political change, and in the technological mediations and cultural articulations of which transnational hegemonies and counter-hegemonies consist.  My PhD dissertation is about indigenous and environmentalist discourses, particularly around the Mapuche and southern Chile. 

Areas of interest

Socioenvironmental issues

Indigenous issues

Transnational organizing

Mass Media & Cultural Studies