I am a Ph.D. candidate in Public and Urban Policy at The New School for Social Research and a teaching fellow at Parsons School of Design in New York City. 

My research interrogates emergent social policy concerns and the frontiers of urban development in Latin America and the United States, with a particular focus on the role of care infrastructure—such as kitchens, laundromats, and community gardens—in radical state transformation. My work takes an interdisciplinary approach that integrates policy analysis, urban development, and feminist science and technology studies (FSTS). 

I am currently working on a book project, “Feminist Post-Technocracy: Care Infrastructure in Bogotá”—a one-year ethnography of a State office in Colombia dedicated to reducing, recognizing, and redistributing unpaid care work. This project reframes dominant accounts of technocracy and development in the Global South by showing how care-centered governance technologies disrupt linear planning logics, politicize technical expertise, and unsettle bureaucratic power.

You can email me at celic265@newschool.edu