My cultural and educational praxis (reflection and action) align with practicing what collective liberation processes look like through art-making and dialogue. I engage in collaboration and creative work to catalyze transformation in the community by analyzing the effects of interconnected systems of oppression.

This work is anchored through curatorial, programmatic, and public-facing cultural work. Much of it is inspired by popular education movements and is informed by a love ethic developed through trust, critical thought, and possibility. My community involvement has allowed me to do intergenerational and youth-based work to address power, repair, freedom, and play through audio, screenprinting, collage, zine-making, theater of the oppressed games, and more. Years of reciprocal exchange have fostered a sense of shared responsibility for the abundant futures we are looking to build.

As an artist, I lean on intuition to create work bridging myth and memory. Using sound art, text, imagery, installation, collage, archival imagery, and mixed media, I unpack how nostalgia informs my relationship to land, migration, and home-making. Works like Volver (Return) and Mitos | Memoria reference “places of origin” and question nationhood by personifying these experiences as a lover I once knew that has changed since our first encounter and changed me in the process of yearning. In many ways, I become a kind of Llorona, mourning the loss of what I knew and always longing for a return to the space of in-between.

Whether I am making a collage, interviewing civically minded artists on public radio, facilitating panels, curating, or teaching I am interested in generative expansion through storytelling and connection.