Biography
I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Mass Communication with a minor in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I study political communication from an epistemic perspective, focusing on how truth claims are introduced, justified, and contested in the public sphere. My broader agenda addresses the relationship between technology, communication, and democracy, including misinformation, polarization, and populism.
At the Public Tech Media Lab, my research focuses on open-source investigations (OSINT/OSINV), public-interest technology, and the use of artificial intelligence in journalism. My current projects examine how open-source investigators repurpose digital objects to produce public evidence and resistance, and how audiences respond to the use and disclosure of AI in news production, in partnership with Wisconsin Public Media.
Before coming to Madison, I taught communication, political science, and public policy in Peru and spent over a decade working in public policy and international development, including as political advisor to the British Ambassador in Lima and at Peru’s Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit.
I hold a Master of International Development Policy from Duke University, where I was a Rotary Peace Fellow, and a Communication degree from Universidad de Lima. I’m from Pucallpa, in the Peruvian Amazon.