I am an assistant professor at the Centre of Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Toronto. Previously, I was a researcher at the Justice Project of the University of Chicago, where I continue to be affiliated as a Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellow in the Sociology Department.

Before joining the University of Chicago, I completed my Doctorate in the Sciences of Law (J.S.D) at Yale Law School, where I studied the consequences of the Latin American criminal procedure revolution on crime rates, incarceration rates, and the administration of justice in the region. As an expert on adversarial procedural reform in Latin America, I have advised the Colombian Ministry of Justice, Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), and the Inter-American Bank of Development and Colombian Congress Representatives in assessing and designing economic development, criminal justice, and penitentiary public policies.  At Yale, I was awarded the Kauffman Fellowship in Law and Economics at the John M. Olin Center and the Fox International Fellowship to spend a year in Sciences Po, Paris, as a visiting researcher.

My research examines how institutional arraignments can exacerbate social control and inequality through redistricting processes, immigration, and criminal justice contacts. My work has been supported by the Center of International Research and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago; the John M. Olin Center, the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, and the MacMillan Center at Yale University; the Horowitz Foundation and the Institute for Humane Studies.

My work has been featured on Fox News, NBC News, Univision, Telemundo, WBEZ, and El Espectador. My research is also available on SSRN and Google Scholar.