Passionate about understanding culture

My education background includes a PhD in Child Psychology at the Institute of Child Development of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, a master in Psychotherapy at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a bachelor in Psychology at Universidad Santa Maria La Antigua in Panama.

In 2015, I joined the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University as an assistant professor after having worked in the Department of Psychology at Hamilton College from 2014 to 2015. I earned tenured and was promoted to associate professor in 2021.

Culture has a central role in my training and my personal life. I grew up in Panama and participated in different cultural, linguistic, and academic communities during my undergraduate studies there and graduate studies in Spain and the U.S. These experiences showed me the importance of culture, and the need to fight racism and other systems of oppression, and the responsibility of scientists in social progress.