Gabriela Aros (she/her/ella) is a Ph.D. student in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, where she earned her M.A. She holds a B.A. in both journalism and women and gender studies from the University of Missouri, and her current research focuses on the surveillance and militarization of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the ways it has influenced mothering practices. Gabriela looks at the intersections between parenthood, gender, legal status, and transfronterizo/a identity. She connects theories of state power and identity in an in-between borderland space to explore developments in parenthood and gender roles.