Born and raised in Laredo, Texas, I attended the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. After a short practice, I followed my spouse to postings in the Netherlands, Singapore, and India. In Singapore, I taught legal research and writing to first year law students at the National University of Singapore. I now reside in Houston, Texas.

I am an independent scholar focused on the folklore of Tejano culture, a self-described Tejanista. I am currently working on a book. My previous works have appeared or are forthcoming in Chamisa: A Journal of Visual, Literary and Performance Arts of the Southwest, The Nasiona, and in an anthology, ¡Somos Tejanas! I made a presentation on the relationship between Conversos and flamenco before the Society of Crypto-Judaic Studies. My hobbies include both dancing and singing flamenco.