I am a passionate teacher who loves to learn and co-think with students. I strive to create a safe and playful learning environment in which everyone feels received, heard and seen just as they are.
My teaching philosophy
My teaching approach is rooted in care, inclusivity, and the recognition that students learn best when they feel seen, supported, and connected. As an educator, I have worked closely with first-generation, international, and minoritized students, many of whom balance multiple responsibilities and navigate complex personal challenges. To foster a learning environment that prioritizes both academic success and well-being, I developed the 5Cs methodology—Creativity, Critical Thinking, Curiosity, Collaboration, and Commitment—anchored by care and co-existence as core values.
In practice, this means cultivating a classroom culture where trust, self-confidence, and community-building are as important as mastering course content. I incorporate small but meaningful practices—such opening each session with rounds of personal greetings among students, grounding exercises, check-ins, and collaborative hands-on projects as part of our discussions-to encourage students to engage fully, support one another, and see education as both an individual and collective journey. As a bilingual, bicultural Latina, I model these values to help students embrace their own identities and experiences as strengths in their academic and personal growth.
Courses
At UC Davis I have taught Introduction to Anthropology and Politics in Latin America both with an emphasis on digital lives and money, and Women and Development.
In Peru, I have taught qualitative research methods and writing seminar courses in the Communication Department at two universities, PUCP and UPC.
I would love to teach:
Money Futures and the New Frontiers of Extractivism: a course in contemporary economic anthropology examining money transformations, from financial inclusion projects to crypto experiments–which promise empowerment but often reproduce inequalities– with case studies in the Global South.
Social Media, Embedded Finance and the Politics of Platform Economies: this interdisciplinary course combines media studies, anthropology and STS to examine contemporary digital life and its economic and sociopolitical implications.
