I am an engaged anthropologist with a professional background in public health and community mental health whose research and teaching lies in two primary areas: transnational migration and global mental health. At the UO, where I have held a faculty position since 2012, I am an Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Global Studies. In 2016, alongside allied students and faculty, I launched the UO Global Health Initiative in 2015, which includes a Global Health Minor and the Center for Global Health. I am affiliated faculty with the Department of Anthropology, the Disability Studies program; I also serve on the Board of the Center for the Study of Women in Society as well as the Steering Committee for the UO Dreamers Working Group. In the community, I volunteer with a number of migrant-serving and immigrant rights organizations, including the Refugee Resettlement Coalition of Lane County, the Immigrant and Refugee Services Program of Catholic Community Services, and Innovation Law Lab. I also serve on the Public Health Advisory Committee to the Lane County Board of Health and the Health Equity Committee of the Oregon Health Authority. As a publicly-engaged scholar, I draw on my community engagements to foster research collaborations, to inform public health policy, and to open professional opportunities for my students in public health and immigrant justice work.