[1] He received his PhD from Brown University in Religious Studies.
[2] His work has been influential in contributing to ideas about decoloniality[3] decolonizing epistemology,[4] and in critiquing Western liberalism and Eurocentrism.
[5][6] He is influenced by the works of Frantz Fanon, Emmanuel Levinas, and Enrique Dussel.
[7] He critiques the notion of representational politics as being enough to contribute to systemic change.
[12] He was one of the signatories to support the creation for a Latina/o Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States.