| Sep 08, 2026 | “Skin Tone as a Visual Cue in Political Campaigns: Evidence from Elections in Mexico”, co-authored with my advisor, Sandra González-Bailón, is out now in the The International Journal of Press/Politics! You can read the open-access article here. |
| Sep 08, 2026 | I had the honor of teaching a guest lecture on bias in AI systems to an amazing group of (400!) undergraduate students at Stony Brook University. |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Our project “Identifying Biases in VLMs’ Zero-Shot Classifications of Race and Gender” was awarded $10,000 USD through the Annenberg School for Communication Internal Grant. I will be leading this project as lead researcher during the 2026-2027 academic year, collaborating with my colleagues from the Politics, Identities, and Communication Lab, Dr. Cristina Monzer and Dr. Deen Freelon. |
| Jul 30, 2026 | I attended this year’s IC2S2 conference in Burlington, VT, from July 28 to July 31 2026. Vishwanath Emani Venkata and I presented our project “Mechanisms of Social Bias in Large Language Models: Disentangling Linguistic Framing from Group Specification”. |
| Jun 26, 2026 | From June 15 to June 26 I had the joy of participating at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at the University of Pennsylvania. It was an incredibily enriching experience, all thanks to the amazing organizers, Josh Nguyen, Samar Haider, Upasana Dutta, and Prof. Dan Hopkins. |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Thrilled to share that I have been selected as a recipient of the Graduate Scholarship for Sciences and Humanities! I am deeply grateful to the Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation of Mexico (SECIHTI) for their support of my work on the visual representation of social identity in Mexican political communication. This funding will be instrumental for the completion of my PhD journey. |
| Aug 14, 2025 | I was so happy to participate at this year’s PolNet-PACSS conference in Boston, MA! Gayoung Jeon and I had the opportunity to present a poster on our project “Picturing Immigration: A Multimodal Computational Analysis of the 2024 U.S Presidential Campaign”. |