She earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. She has an abiding interest in the messy entanglements of biotechnology, clinical uncertainty, medicalization, and shifting forms of subjectivity. She has conducted ethnographic research on organ transplantation in Mexico, Spain and the U.S. and is completing a book manuscript with the working title Iconic Bodies: Imaginings of Self, State and Organ Transplantation in Mexico. Her current research explores the political and moral economies surrounding pain management in American biomedicine.