🙋♂️ About the Person
I was born in Northeast Colorado into a family of Mexican heritage. We moved around every few years between the municipal areas of Fort Morgan and Brighton before I completed high school in Commerce City and began my young adulthood in Fort Collins. I witnessed and experienced a variety of landscapes, cultures, and economies that manifest in what many call the urban-rural divide. These fascinating encounters with human diversity in combination with my lack of local roots as a first-generation American inspired much curiosity in me. To this day, my deep interest in understanding Northern Colorado's sense of place continues to guide both my personal and professional pursuits as I seek to grasp more and more about the only home I have ever known.
📚 About the Professional
During my undergraduate career at Colorado State University, I struggled to confine myself into a specialization and shifted through various disciplines within the humanities, including sociology, geography, and communications. Eventually, I graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts and a minor in History. I immediately began a Master's of Arts in History at Colorado State University with the aim of eventually earning a PhD. I thought this career path was the best way to secure the resources I needed to satisfy my ambitions for a life of research. However, I have paused my graduate studies to better serve the broader public beyond academia as an independent intellectual.