I am a facilitator of stories, people, and art. I’m a queer, Chicana, born and raised in Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, California. I attended First St. Elementary, Hollenbeck Middle School, Roosevelt High School, UCLA, and now USC — a very LA educational journey and overall upbringing. I graduated from UCLA with a B.A. and M.A. in Latin American Studies and Labor and Workplace Studies. My MA project moved within historical, critical, and media analysis of songs about Mexican repatriation from the United States during the Great Depression. Today, I look forward to exploring interactive ways of sharing and engaging with our histories while observing how this impacts our identity development, sense of purpose, communal and intergenerational processing — and how we imagine our futures. I am interested in researching, understanding, and translating through multi-disciplinary media and methodology, the differences in Latinx migration patterns, cultural exchanges within the U.S. and across Latin American borders, and psycho-social adaptations to life in the U.S. Ultimately, I wants to use media and art to document, sense-make, and inspire interconnectedness across people from various life paths. I am also a Ronald E. McNair Scholar alumna, NPR Next Generation alumna, and a Posse Scholar. In my free time, I enjoy making iced matcha lattes, experiencing live music, and dancing to cumbia.