Mentorship and Service

Motivated by the challenges I’ve faced throughout my own educational journey, I am passionate about promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate education. To that end, I am involved in several mentorship and outreach initiatives at MIT and beyond.

In 2023, I was a Pod Leader for the MIT Summer Research Program, an initiative that invites undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds to MIT to conduct research while preparing for graduate school. In this position, I mentored a small group of student interns and supported their academic development. In 2024, I returned to MSRP as the Pod Leader Liaison, providing mentorship and guidance to our graduate student Pod Leaders as well as the 98 interns in MSRP. I also worked closely with the Political Science interns in the program, who were hosted in partnership with the MIT Global Diversity Lab’s Pathways to Political Science initiative.

Additionally, I am currently the President (and formerly, the Social & Cultural Co-Chair) of the Latinx Graduate Student Association (LGSA) at MIT. LGSA is a campus-wide student organization that builds community and support among Latino/a/x graduate students at MIT.

I am a Graduate Diversity Ambassador, collaborating with MIT’s Office of Graduate Education to recruit and support a diverse graduate student body. I previously as a Diversity Co-Chair for the MIT Political Science Department’s Graduate Student Council. In this role, I helped coordinate the department’s Political Science Application Mentorship Program (PS-AMP).

I have also contributed to fostering an academic community in my department and beyond. For example, from 2022 to 2024, I organized MIT’s Latin American Working Group, a student-run interdisciplinary workshop that invites faculty and scholars to present research focused on Latin America.