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I am an assistant professor of international security and law at George Mason University’s Schar School for Policy and Government & an Adjunct Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

I study how Global South actors navigate inequalities in international orders. My research focuses on the interests and lawmaking strategies of the Global South in global security governance. I analyze and compare how developing countries—primarily from Latin America—design norms of humanitarian intervention, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament mechanisms, and regulations on emerging technologies with security applications.

I am an affiliate of Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). I previously was a Martin J. Sherwin Fellow with the History and Public Policy Program at the Wilson Center (2023), a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022), and a Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow with funding from the MacArthur Foundation (2022-2023) at CISAC. I hold a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico. I was a junior advisor to the Mexican Vice-Minister for Latin American Affairs before joining the Ph.D. program at Hopkins.

My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Affairs, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Third World Quarterly. I have used my academic research to inform pieces I have published in policy-oriented outlets like The Washington Post, War on the Rocks, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the North American Congress on Latin America. I am a member of international research communities studying international security, where I bring in my expertise on the Global South’s preferences, interests, and strategies. I regularly present my work at academic conferences, think tank workshops, and UN research events.