I am a scholar of social movements and migration and currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. I have conducted research using both qualitative and quantitative methods on a wide range of topics, including migrant conservatism, diaspora formation, transnational repression, news frames and discourses on immigration, women’s international nongovernment organizations, state coalitions in multilateral negotiations, and movement against free trade. My first book Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora (The University of Chicago Press, 2024) shows how diasporas emerge through political activism.