Social Sciences Division
PhD Student
Graduate
Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies
Rachel Carson College Academic Building
Room 211
Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
Ph.D., Sociology
University of California Santa Cruz (in progress)
M.A., Sociology
University of California Santa Cruz (2024)
M.A., Applied Economics
Northeastern University, Boston (2015)
B.A., B.S. International Affairs and Economics
Northeastern University, Boston (2014)
rural-urban political entanglements, migration, Latin America, critical theory, mixed methods
UC-Alianza Mexico, Short-Term Grant for Research Travel in Mexico for Graduate Students, 2024
7th RC21 Doctoral School Participant, International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, Santiago Chile, 2024
Jessica Roy Memorial Award, 2022
York University IPEE Summer School, 2022
Full Tuition Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Northeastern University, 2010-2015
National Hispanic Merit Scholar, 2010
Invited Speaker: “When the city becomes unaffordable: Mapping Impacts of Urban Displacement on Commuting and Socio-environmental risk in Santa Cruz, California” University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain: October 2024 (Presentation in Spanish)
Panelist: “The power of the periphery: Popularly urbanized agglomerations in the postcolonial megacity, the Mexico City Metropolitan Zone”, RC21 Conference, Santiago, Chile: July 2024
Panelist: “Theorizing the Urban Interface in Mexico: Critical and Comparative Approaches”, American Association of Geographers Conference, Virtual: April 14, 2024
Invited Speaker: “Towards an Anti-Displacement Vision for Santa Cruz and the California Coast”, presentation for the California Coastal Commission, Santa Cruz, CA: Dec 14, 2023 (with Miriam Greenberg)
Panelist: “How did we get here? Affordable Housing in Santa Cruz: Diverse Perspectives on our Crisis”, presentation for the conference Our Downtown Our Future. Santa Cruz, CA: October 14, 2023 (with Miriam Greenberg and Julian Crowne)
Pedroza, Juan M. and Elena Losada. 2025. "It’s about time: Parent’s direct care for children in Hispanic noncitizen households across state immigration policy contexts." Population Research and Policy Review
Greenberg, Miriam, Hillary Angelo, Elena Losada, and Christopher C. Wilmers. 2024. “Relational Geographies of Urban Unsustainability: The Entanglement of California’s Housing Crisis with WUI Growth and Climate Change.”Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
