ABOUT ME
Positionality Statement
I am gender queer, Brown immigrant from Mexico, settler to the traditional land of the Coast Salish territories.
I am dedicated to the abolition of all systems of oppression that serve settler colonial and white supremacy.
As a community educator and academic, my work centers Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples and my curricula are based on the teachings of bell hooks and Paulo Freire.
Drawing from thorough Social Emotional training, I facilitate robotics, digital art and philosophical learning spaces with youth in Seattle, and work towards building community everywhere I go with anti-racist and intersectionality frameworks.
Education
MASTER OF EDUCATION
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
2023-2025
University of Washington
BACHELOR of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Human Resource Management
2016-2020
University of Texas at Dallas
Undergraduate Leadership / Projects
CO-FOUNDER OF PHILOSOPHY CIRCLE
2018-2020
Independent Project
CO-FOUNDER OF UNDERGRAD PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
2016-2020
University of Texas at Dallas
PRESIDENT OF THE PHILOSOPHY CLUB
2018-2020
University of Texas at Dallas
Languages: Spanish (Mother tongue)
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Summer 2023
University of Washington
Alain Locke Fellow at MIT
Summer 2021
Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI)
Professional Experience
Academic Experience
Workshop Facilitator For Care Givers and Educators
Fall 2023-Present
School’s Out Washington
Teaching Artist: Robotics + Digital Art
Fall 2023- Present
Coyote Central
Enrichment Instructor: Art
Summer 2022
WA-BLOC Freedom Schools
Lead Tech Instructor: Robotics
Nov 2020- Dec 2021
Geeking Out Kids of Color
Editorial Reviewer and Translator
Oct 2022- Present
Editorial Collective, LÁPIZ
Panel Speaker at the Inaugural bell hooks Symposium
June 2023
Berea College
Additional Skills and Trainings
SEL PQA (Social & Emotional Learning Program Quality Assessment) Basics
2021
trained by Schools Out Washington
Participatory Budgeting for Orgs Cohort
2021
trained by Participatory Budgeting Project