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Luisa studies the transgenerational transmission of trauma and adversity in communities experiencing chronic and acute stressors. She currently conducts research with two populations: pregnant women delivering at a safety-net hospital in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco, and post-conflict Mayan villages in northwestern Guatemala. In both places, her research focuses on the ways in which historical trauma and structural violence are lived out through caregiving, examining the cultural and biological pathways that may buffer stress and augment resilience in communities of color.
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Luisa is a bicultural Puerto Rican woman who brings a critical perspective to biocultural and engaged anthropology. She believes that HPRS offers her the opportunity to move her work beyond the boundaries of a traditionally very theory-oriented discipline and engage policy and change makers to translate her work into structural and clinical interventions for young children and families in the United States and Latin America.
