I research the articulation of race, nature and migrations across the Américas. In Guatemala, I have conducted research that resulted in the publication of Tierra, Migración y Vida en Petén (2012) and Green Wars (2017). In the US Pacific Northwest, I have examined the role of the Northwest Detention Center in immigrant rights. Thinking relationally across the US, Mexico and Guatemala, I am also researching and writing on transnational Latinidades.

I serve on the editorial/advisory boards of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; and The Professional Geographer.


Guerras Verdes

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Picture"Illegal, for-profit, every day" mural about the Northwest Detention Center



​Abolition Geographies

My current research seeks to understand what abolition geographies mean in practice -- a Tacoma without a detention center? a Seattle without a police department?


Tierra, Migración y Vide en Petén, 1999 - 2009

Ybarra, M, Obando Samos, O, Grandia, L, et al. (2012) Tierra, Migración y Vida en Petén, 1999-2009. Guatemala City: CONGCOOP-IDEAR
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