I am a bilingual interdisciplinary researcher, multimedia historian, educator, and advocate in the movements for reproductive rights, health, and justice. I am also an abortion story-sharer and story-listener with an emphasis on honoring people’s lived experiences, intimate interviewing, active and empathetic listening, intersectional perspectives, and historical memory.

My own abortion experience as a teenager (in 1997) inspired me to create The Abortion Diary (in 2013), the only audio archive of abortion stories and abortion provider stories. I’m an expert on abortion story-sharing and listening, and work to center the voices of people who have had abortions and end abortion (and all sexual and reproductive health related) stigma in all facets of my life. As an Afro-Latina who has experienced a range of of reproductive journeys (with abortion, contraception, assisted reproduction, miscarriage, egg donation) - that are often stigmatized- I know the roots of reproductive stigma all to well and actively work to improve systems and bust stigma.

My research skills were fine-tuned in the humanities as a historian conducting archival research in the Dominican Republic and U.S. on gender and public health policies in the Dominican Republic during U.S. occupation and dictatorship, conducting public health and social science research to advance access to abortion and patient centered care, and as an oral historian story-listening to hundreds of reproductive experiences across generations.

I fuse my interest in public health science and social science qualitative and quantitative research with humanities research methodologies. My method of intimate interviewing disrupts traditional modes of research and analysis, and prioritizes the challenging work of honoring people’s lived experiences and listening actively and empathetically in order to gather richer and more authentic stories. I also have expertise on digital and data security for research.