
My Research and Scholarship
My scholarship centers on reimagining how families learn about, practice, and transmit financial knowledge by examining the cultural and structural forces that shape these processes. I investigate how immigrant-heritage families in the United States navigate financial precarity, acculturative tensions, and systemic inequities while developing and passing on financial values, knowledge, and behaviors across generations. Situated at the intersection of family and consumer sciences, sociology, education, and public policy, my work pursues two interrelated aims: (1) to advance culturally responsive dimensions of the Family Financial Socialization (FFS) and financial education frameworks, and (2) to enact translational scholarship that informs the development and assessment of financial education interventions. Ultimately, my goal is to generate theoretical and applied contributions that shift the field’s understanding of financial socialization from a purely individual or technical process to one embedded within families’ cultural realities and structural constraints. Through this lens, my research seeks to foster economic mobility and inclusion for immigrant families and ethnic-racial minority communities across the United States.