I am a researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. I study the dynamics of selective violence against sexual and gender minorities during the Colombian internal armed conflict and relate these dynamics to broader patterns of gendered violence during war. Through my research, I consider the roles of marginality, cruelty, and spectacle in social control strategies during war. In addition to my work on political violence, I also publish on topics related to LGBTIQ+ displacement and collaborate with other scholars at the Refugee Studies Centre. The hope of my research is to contribute to both academic and policy debates relating to queer and trans experiences of crisis, conflict, and displacement. Outside of academia, I have worked on human rights, peace, and security topics for a range of institutions, including the United Nations’ Executive Office of the Secretary General as well as human rights organizations in Washington DC and Buenos Aires. I have written for Slate, the New Humanitarian, and Newsweek & the Daily Beast’s Women in the World Foundation. And I have contributed to pieces published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, El País, and Foreign Policy, among others. I am fluent in Spanish and proficient in Italian and French.