I am an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Environmental Studies at Williams College, where I teach courses in urban and architectural history and theory, integrating a design and art component centered on environmental justice. My research examines the history and theory of architecture and urbanism, focusing on the intersections between built environments, techno-politics, and social justice, with a specialization in architecture and urbanization in the Global South. I hold a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Architecture within the History, Theory, and Society program, with a designated emphasis on Global Metropolitan Studies and a certificate in Global Urban Humanities. I am a registered architect in both the United States and Italy and serve on the executive board of the Italian Association for Women in Development (AIDOS), where I contribute to advancing gender rights globally. My pronouns are she/her/hers.

Having lived, practiced, and conducted research on three continents, I bring transnational scope and cross-cultural competency to my work. As both scholar and practitioner, I have collaborated with communities and movements shaped by unequal infrastructural, environmental, and urban conditions in São Paulo, Mexico City, Ouagadougou, Paris, and San Francisco. My observation of participatory planning processes in Brazilian favelas has offered critical insights into how environmental design and infrastructural interventions can either reinforce or disrupt structural inequalities.

My artistic practice is closely intertwined with my research. Through drawing, material explorations, and site-based installations, I investigate the metabolic life of infrastructures, their entanglement with landscapes and bodies, and the temporalities of extraction and repair. These explorations treat infrastructures as porous, living systems rather than static objects, creating spaces for sensory and critical engagement.

I have published a multidisciplinary volume, Embodying Peripheries,, and I am currently working on a book project titled The Self-Built City. In addition, I co-organize the working groups Intersectional Ecologies and Ecologies of Difference e, funded by the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley.