She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 2010. Her dissertation was titled (Re)membering the Madrid Movida: Life, Death, and Legacy in the Contemporary Corpus. Her research interests include Spanish cultural studies, film, museum studies, fashion and contemporary art. She has engaged in creative writing since she was a child, and her poetry has been published in Grafemas, El Boletín de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH). Creative writing provides a forum in which she explores the spaces in between the cultures that have shaped her: the United States, Spain and Colombia.