My research project, titled “Administering Vulnerability: A Necropolitical Analysis of the United States Embargo Against Cuba,” is supervised by Professor Marc-André Anzueto at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. My master’s studies in the social sciences of development, with a concentration in international development, build on my undergraduate training in the same field. During my academic path, I also had the opportunity to work as a research assistant for two professors in the program, which gave me my first hands-on experience of the research environment. My professional experience, however, remains mainly rooted in education, as I have worked as a primary school teacher for the past five years.

My research interests focus mainly on inequalities, power relations, and the lived realities of populations in situations of vulnerability, particularly in Latin America, a region I have developed a strong interest in through my travels. My thesis continues in this direction, seeking to understand, from a necropolitical perspective, how US sanctions against Cuba can contribute to producing, maintaining, or deepening conditions of vulnerability among the Cuban population. My experience as a research assistant also allowed me to work on issues that matter deeply to me, notably the empowerment and securitization of groups in situations of vulnerability in Mexico and Colombia, as well as the documentation of the phenomenon of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Quebec. These experiences reflect a research interest that has gradually consolidated around social injustices, inequalities, and the mechanisms that contribute to the vulnerabilization of certain populations.