Much of my research has focused on stance narratives and ideological discourse surrounding racial identities and racialized bodies. This includes research on the sociocultural, emotional, and educational roles of language in education, particularly the language use of first-generation Hispanic students at a predominantly white higher education institution. This also includes research on language and indigeneity – specifically, on the conceptual frameworks used to discuss the harmful effects of climate change on indigenous health, as well as on the discrimination and exclusion of indigenous peoples/languages in Western culture and the field of linguistic anthropology. (My other primary research focus is in the area of phonology, in which I have conducted experimental research on the cross-linguistic influence of phonological processes in Spanish-English code-switching.)