Short Bio
Camila spent her formative years in Miami, Florida, where her personal experiences and search for belonging in the city's Cuban and diasporic communities shaped her academic interests. The city's layered histories and politics offered an early framework for an approach to scholarship that values lived experience and the art and performance of everyday life as sites of cultural theory.
Camila’s undergraduate thesis, Tú Cinco-Nueve, Yo Doble Dos: Understanding Cubanidad in Gen-Z Little Havana, received the Best Thesis Award from NYU’s Department of Social & Cultural Analysis and support from the Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund. Her current work extends that research through regular trips to Miami and Cuba, a conference series with high-profile figures in the Reparto space, and conscientious archival work aimed at publishing accessible findings while engaging a rapidly evolving and increasingly mainstream field.
While completing her M.A. in Latin American & Caribbean Studies, she also works with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics at NYU, preserving and annotating performance media for the Digital Video Library and supporting public engagement. Beyond the university, she freelances as a Correspondence Archivist for the Estate of Jean Franco, consults as a research analyst for film projects, and plans to pursue a Ph.D. beginning fall ’26.