Current Research
My ongoing research revolves around studying various forms of alternative economies encompassed in the concept of Economic Democracy in theory and praxis. I'm particularly interested in understanding wealth and poverty in working class communities and finding solutions and alternatives to capitalist exploitation. I specialize in community based research working with communities to develop solutions that improve their quality of life.
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Previous Research
For my dissertation, through the use of qualitative methods composed of participant observations, interviews, archival research and discourse analysis I engaged in a study of the Worker Owned Cooperative Community in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. With the current economic crisis as the backdrop of my research, my project aims to understand how cooperatively owned and democratically run enterprises function and what problems they face, in order to explore whether they are a viable community wealth-generating alternatives to mainstream notions of economic development. A large part of the project focused the racial interactions as well as systemic impacts of race within the cooperative community. There is also a focus on the day to day local, state, national, institutional, legal and business politics involved in the development, creation, conversion, maintenance, and expansion of worker cooperatives and other forms of employee ownership.
My previous research revolved around the discourse regarding Mexico's Drug war and the day to day Political Economic reality of Mexico's people. For this project I spent 4 months during the summer of 2009 engaged in participant observations in Mexico working under the supervision of Professors Leonel Yañez and Jesus Becerra at the Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas in Mexico.
I have also engaged in various research projects on the topics of Social Movements, Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S. and Environmental Politics.
My previous research revolved around the discourse regarding Mexico's Drug war and the day to day Political Economic reality of Mexico's people. For this project I spent 4 months during the summer of 2009 engaged in participant observations in Mexico working under the supervision of Professors Leonel Yañez and Jesus Becerra at the Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas in Mexico.
I have also engaged in various research projects on the topics of Social Movements, Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S. and Environmental Politics.
