“I hold an MFA in Integrated Media arts from Hunter College and am currently a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Informed by a background in architecture and media art, my work explores urban space as a terrain for cultural expression and social interaction, focusing on race, class, and gender in the exchanges that take place in public life.  More recent work has focused on the production of bodies and disability; an interest catalyzed by the experience of disability and recovery and an expanding interest in feminist theories and epistemologies. I am is currently doing preliminary research for my dissertation “Coffee with legs: the production of gendered bodies in Santiago’s ‘cafés con piernas,’ about women’s sexualized work in Santiago’s coffee shops.”