Dr. Flotte is a Harvard trained ethnographer and applied anthropologist. She obtained her BA in Anthropology at UT-Austin and a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology at Harvard University. Her doctoral dissertation was an ethnographic and advocacy project that analyzed complex issues of border externalization, immigration enforcement and migrant mobility in Central America, Mexico and the United States. Her dissertation field research and findings have been used for legal cases and as inspiration for various other projects across the world.