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.

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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