Her work examines the emergence of innovation-driven national development initiatives in Peru, where new technological and legal resources, including intellectual property titles to networked digital technologies, are promoted to prepare diverse populations for the Information Age. Her work considers how the promotion of such tools impacts communities from rural ceramics artisans to urban-based free software coders. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Introduction to Humanities Program. She received her Ph.D. from MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and her master's degree from MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program. Her research has been awarded support from the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University's School of Law and the National Science Foundation.