I am an interdisciplinary scholar broadly engaging in migration and transnational mobilization studies. My research approach is relational and comparative, focused on how transnational families exercise political and social rights across borders. My work seeks to explain how peoples’ everyday expressions of kinship, community care, and mutual support are shaped by interlocking identity formations structured by globalization, extractive labor regimes, and climate change. Specifically, I examine how groups challenge conditions of racial inequality by studying migrant knowledge systems and remittance transactions as mobilization techniques utilized within and beyond the state through the lenses of farmworkers, immigrant veterans, and other diaspora groups. I combine my background in public policy with perspectives from other disciplines (political science, sociology, and anthropology) to employ participatory action research as an approach to co-produced inquiry with practical applications that can generate social change. I utilize both qualitative and quantitative research methods and experiment with storytelling, art, and a variety of advocacy strategies to communicate findings back to communities of impact.