A public school immigrant kid and organic [food certified] intellectual with big dreams.

[Cue “This is Not America” (2024) by Resident et al., “Somos Sur” by Ana Tijoux (2014), and “Rose in the Dark” by Cleo Sol (2020)]

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Barbara — Santa Barbara, CA • September 2023-Present

  • Student, Doctor of Philosophy in Chicana and Chicano Studies

California Institute of Integral Studies – San Francisco, CA • 2021 to 2023

  • Master of Arts in Women, Gender, Spirituality, and Social Justice

University of California, Berkeley – Berkeley, California • 2012 to 2015

  • Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies

  • Bachelor of Arts in Chicana/o Studies

Universidad de Chile – Santiago, Chile • 2014 to 2015

  • University of California Education Abroad Program

Napa Valley College – Napa, CA • 2009 to 2012

  • Certificate of Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum 

Under construction…

“Ser joven y no ser revolucionario es una contradicción hasta biológica.”

-Salvador Allende

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.” -Toni Cade Bambara

“We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.”

-Sandra Cisneros