Thank you for taking an interest in me and my work. I am a historian and writer, but I came to history first by living it. My work grows out of the places I have lived, the communities and movements I have been part of, and the questions I later learned to pursue through archives and historical research.

My books move between Tucson and Los Angeles, and my newest work extends that journey into Sonora, Mexico. Across these places, I examine contested landscapes, urban renewal and displacement, environmental justice, Brown and queer histories, LGBTQIA+ activism, and the ways communities resist being erased.

My memoirs bring personal experience into conversation with archival research and broader historical and social forces. Throughout my work, I am interested in what places remember, what official histories leave out, and how people and communities make their presence known.