Research

I employ the art of storytelling and ethnographic documentary video to create public facing bilingual content with the aim of accessibility for community members and academic settings.
My research has been awarded competitive fellowships on a national level and within the UC system that encourages international collaborative research. As a co-investigator with University of Colorado Boulder American Music Research Center we have been awarded two seed grants and applied to the National Endowment for the Humanities in September 2021. I have received several awards and acknowledgements ranging from the Mexican Consulate in California, Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage, Colorado History Museum’s El Pueblo History Museum, and UCR Office of International Affairs.

Sonidos de Resistencia

An ethnographic short documentary based on ‘The Inaugural Oaxacan Philharmonic Bands Audition: Audición de Bandas’ held at UC Riverside on January 27, 2018.

What is the Guelaguetza Festival?

Watch how migrant Oaxacan communities in Santa Cruz reproduce a Pre-Columbian Zapotec festival in California?

Booming Bandas of Los Angeles

This video details the history of three Zapotec women Oaxacan musicians and their experiences in the Indigenous community-based Philharmonic based in Los Angeles, CA.

Fundraising 2016 Banda Nueva Dinastia de Zoochila

Banda Nueva Dinastia de Zoochila, an LA-based brass youth band, is asking for your help to raise funds for the grand trip they will be taking in July 2016 for the opportunity to participate in the annual festivities of their parent's hometown village in Santiago Zoochila, Oaxaca. This is their story...!!