He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. His main research interests focus on African American/Latinx relations, overlapping oppression and solidarity in the context of the War on Drugs in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors for Freedom University, an organization that offers college-level classes and mentoring to undocumented students who have been denied this right by the State of Georgia.