My work in the field of applied linguistics explores the intersections of critical theory and humanizing education to advance a pluriversal perspective within language research. My work is deeply rooted in ethnographic methodologies and arts-based research, offering nuanced insights into the intricate connections between language and broader socio-cultural constructs such as culture, race, human rights, diversity, and equity on both national and international scales.

A central focus of my work is on relation to the critical examination of how heteropatriarchy, capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization influence language policies, educational practices, and their impacts on communities. By interrogating these power structures, I aim to unveil the often-unseen implications for marginalized groups, including immigrants, asylum seekers, Indigenous peoples, Black, 2S/LGBTQA+, aging and neurodiverse communities. To accomplish this, I employ a diverse array of creative and innovative methodologies that prioritize the well-being and empowerment of communities, students, and educators as framed by Southern Ways of Being, Thinking, and Doing (SBTD). Critical, humanizing social justice and community-oriented research underscores my dedication to creating transformative educational practices that challenge oppressive systems and promote linguistic and cultural diversity for a more democratic and sustainable worth living world.

My teaching philosophy is guided by two epistemological concepts that I have acquired throughout the years of working with communities (teacher/students from across Abya Yala – Turtle Island) and conversations with Indigenous peoples in the continent. These concepts are El Buen Vivir and Sentipensante which have encouraged me to problematize current sociopolitical and unequal colonial projects as I seek to amplify the knowledge of those who have lived at the margins of society.

As such, I understand my students as beings who are in constant change, fluidity and reflective consciousness. They constantly not only see knowledge as a form of learning but as a source for transformation and I act as a facilitator of the process: I am the source of motivation and guidance to find the necessary and most appropriate educational tools to find cultural and sustaining social solutions to their own struggles or those of their community.

I am also interested in creative and collaborative inquiry to explore art-based, diverse and innovative forms of research such as Virtual realities (VRs)  A.I technology, Postsemiotic disocurses and texts, tattoos and street art as well as sound walking methodologies to map out the pluricultural and plurilingual diver[cities].  I currently belong to various collectivxs in Canada including the Mosaique Network and the ARTEM Collective fostering creative inquiry as inclusive practice.