This is my personal page, welcome!
Growing up in Southern Oaxaca, I got to experience a particular liminality between industrially developed urban areas and marginalized rural communities, as well as being in close contact with indigenous people. This made me more culturally aware and sparked an interest within me for understanding how the state of Oaxaca, and more broadly Mexico, ended up in the state we find it today.
From then, I started to read on basic political and critical theory. My mother gifted me a book she thought I might like, Ernst Cassirer's Philosophical Anthropology. The book not only provided a theoretical foundation for human cognition, one of the objects of study in Anthropology, but it also introduced me to the discipline of Anthropology; a discipline which seemed to scratch the itch that intially set me on this journey.
Later down the line, I became interested in Mathematics due to my high school teacher Heron Cardenas, whose insistence on challenging me mathematically made me fall in love with the discipline.
However, unlike what he was hoping, my interest with Mathematics was not to push it forward but instead to use it as a descriptive tool to articulate abstract and complex ideas found in the books I read.
This led me towards math education, where I could exercise my ability to break down abstract ideas into digestible concepts for lay people. I explored this interest in a job I took over the summer after my first year, where I worked as a Math teacher for an organization near my home town aiding children from underserved communities in their education.
Nowadays, I still enjoy teaching people math in my tutoring job for my school's Math department.
My academic interests are in archival theory, specially its role in archeology; indigenous rights in the Americas; and Community based education, with a focus on math education.
I also have a big interest in music. My favorite artists are Charles Mingus, JPEGMAFIA, and Willie Colon. I play the double bass as a hobby, although I haven't done it much since moving to the U.S. My new year's resolution is to start writing my own music!
My third love is math and programming. I started out doing game development as a hobby, but now I'm venturing more into the data side of programming. Sadly, my old laptop took with it the only copy of my portfolio I had, so I have to start it anew.
I want this page to be an archive of all my creative and intellectual endeavors. At the moment it only hosts some of my written works, but I will keep updating it in the future.