I am an Ecuadorian feminist academic working on Latin American women's rights and sexual and reproductive health. I obtained my PhD in Gender and Development (King's College London) with the project "Cuesta arriba y siguiendo el chaquiñán. Indigenous women’s path through violence in plurilegal Ecuador". The research highlighted how notions of ethnic identity intersect with legal and social inequalities.

Since completing my PhD, I have worked within feminist epistemologies and employed participatory and qualitative research methods. My methodological approach includes participatory research, narrative interviews, and arts-based methods, particularly visual narratives co-produced with Indigenous women. More recently, I have expanded my work to include “archiving from below,” focusing on how communities construct and preserve their histories.

As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, I contributed to the project Connecting Three Worlds: Socialism, Medicine and Global Health After World War II. My research examined how socialism shaped sexual and reproductive health rights in Latin America. My current research plans focus on the history of abortion and its role in shaping healthcare systems in Latin America. This line of work examines abortion not only as a public health issue but also as a key site for understanding decentralised forms of biopower, healthcare provision, medical research, obstetric violence, and collective resistance. In 2024, I was awarded a Wellcome Early-Career Award for the four-year project Rewriting Latin America’s Healthcare History: Abortion Criminalisation and the Making of Contemporary Health Systems. Lessons from Ecuador. This project investigates how abortion criminalisation has structured healthcare systems and repositions reproductive policies as central to public health.