Based in Morelos, Mexico, Alessandra’s research follows state initiatives to incorporate rural and Indigenous women through the recognition and revaluation of domestic service as productive labor. She asks how these official narratives of work articulate with informal value-making strategies of rural women they imagine to serve, exploring how domestic workers have leveraged their patron relationships to secure familial welfare in lieu of state-provided care and formal sector employment. Before coming to Penn, she received an MA in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an interdisciplinary BA in Philosophy, English, and Anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY.