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Kimberly Higuera

Kimberly Higuera (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Sociology and MPP in the Public Policy program. Her dissertation Migrating Money: The Social Life of US-Mexico Remittances draws on semi-structured interviewing, an original affective survey, and in-person observations to explore the way that sending and receiving remittances impacts the relationships and status dynamics amongst Mexican immigrants and their families and communities in Mexico. Kimberly is particularly focused on how this economic process impacts the way both American and Mexican societies value women and darker-skinned people. Before Stanford, Kimberly got her BA in Sociology at Duke University with minors in Child Research Policy and Latinx Studies in the Global South. When she’s not working, she loves eating spicy food, reading epic poetry and playing with her dog, Silvestre.