Lara worked for several years as an early childhood educator and community artist. Her doctoral research explores experiences of displacement and conceptions of children’s agency in the context of global inequalities created by neoliberal economic policies and experiences of colonization. In particular, she is examining access to social rights for children with precarious legal status, children’s educational futures and life trajectories, and the ways in which grassroots mobilizations by (and in collaboration with) ‘non-status’ children have induced policy reforms.