Hi there! 👋 

My name is Wilfredo, but you can also call me Wil. I am an Assistant Professor of Digital Cultural Rhetorics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies. 

My research projects interface the colonial intimacies between science, technology, and medicine in relation to the experiences of queer and trans people of color. My primary book project refreshes health literacy studies by foregrounding how queer and trans people of color use social media to talk about their sexual health, and another, smaller book project focuses on understanding the relational beingness of the things that comprise the internet. My manuscript projects focus on how medical and public health training are mired in colonial logics of care and expertise, as well as how we might craft better messages for public health outreach in relation to HIV using user-centered approaches to design. Feel free to peruse full descriptions of both my books projects and articles and chapters. Through it all, though, as a community-engaged scholar and health organizer, I bring to the fore in my scholarship my communities’ needs, goals, and problems. 

Feel free to book a meeting, email me, or reach out on your social media platform of choice if you want to connect!