I am a Los Angeles-born and -based ethnomusicologist, writer, performing artist, and freelance performing arts journalist whose work focuses on how creative practices, including music, dance, theater, and creative writing, engage with the political economies of violence, grief, mourning rituals, and human rights. I received my MFA in creating writing from Antioch University and my PhD in ethnomusicology from UCLA, where my research explored the relationship between narratives about sexual violence, Latino/a “soundscapes,” and lower-caste female dancers who perform for tourists in Goa, India. In 2021, I conceived and was the guest editor for Sonora Review’s special issue, “Extinction,” which considers how gender-based violence relates to other forms of annihilation—against the planet, other species, and ourselves. My most recent project is A Eulogy for Jane Doe, a multimedia work honoring the lives of unidentified women in the United States.