Experience

Texas After Violence Project

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Public Programs Director

  • Aug 2022 - Present

• Program Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Program Coordinator

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  As TAVP’s Program Coordinator, I manage documentation projects across organizational issue areas, including police violence, in-custody death, mass incarceration and the death penalty and coordinates with the Community Archives Director for all projects related to archival collection development, management, and activation. I also coordinate training and education projects with TAVP staff, contractors, collaborators, and partners and creates public events and panels related to TAVP’s programming. I support all strategic planning, necessary outreach, management, and implementation for TAVP’s programs as well as communication efforts around those programs. Show less



Freehand Arts Project

• Retail Art Supplies

• Executive Director

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  Freehand’s classes offer individuals opportunities to draw, paint, read, and write as a way to heal from the realities of incarceration — from pain incurred by separation from their families and destruction of their communities. Art rests at the intersection of introspection, identity, craft, community-building, and communication – giving it a transformative power to tackle the paradoxical complexities of the carceral state:How do we make sense of a national practice of caging individuals in a country founded on freedom? How can we unravel concepts of humanity and criminality? How do we reckon with the “inside” and “outside” world? Writing and art-making provide a space for individuals to work hard to produce something they can be proud of. Our classes build technical skills and work ethic. They ask individuals to write, re-write, and consider their own stories. They value collaboration and vulnerability. Whether individuals are working on a collective piece or are sharing their work with others, in our classes we build skills and create spaces that center on a restorative vision of justice in our world. Show less

• Creative Writing Teacher

  • May 2016 - Present

  I create and teach classes for women incarcerated at Travis County Correctional Complex that engage with Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe, to Nayyirah Waheed and Eileen Myles. Each class allows each individual to participate, by reading, speaking, writing, or sharing their own creative work.



Casa Marianella Inc

• Shelter Operations Aide

  • Nov 2019 - May 2022

  I coordinate communications with immigrants seeking sponsorship in ICE detention centers across the country and support correspondence on behalf of Casa Marianella's detention letters team. I coordinate communications with immigrants seeking sponsorship in ICE detention centers across the country and support correspondence on behalf of Casa Marianella's detention letters team.



New Leaders Council

• United States
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• 2021 Fellow

  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

  New Leaders Council (NLC) is the hub for progressive Millennial thought leadership. New Leaders Council Institute is a six-month training program. The NLC Institute equips our leaders with the skills to run for office, manage campaigns, create start-ups and networks of thought leaders. NLC leaders take their activism back into their communities and workplaces to impact progressive change. NLC creates lasting infrastructure in communities, states and nationally to support our fellows and alumni as they become agents of change. Show less


MINDPOP
• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Writing Consultant

  • Nov 2019 - Aug 2020


Vera Institute of Justice

• United States
• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Government Affairs Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  As a Government Affairs Intern, I attended hearings and briefings and created memos and summaries. I researched progressive prosecution, candidates in the 2018 midterms, and family-separation policies. I focused on Supreme Court cases in immigration and used data-driven enforcement technologies as a lens to better understand America's immigration policies. My work contributed to Vera reports that guide policymaker and stakeholders nationally. As a Government Affairs Intern, I attended hearings and briefings and created memos and summaries. I researched progressive prosecution, candidates in the 2018 midterms, and family-separation policies. I focused on Supreme Court cases in immigration and used data-driven enforcement technologies as a lens to better understand America's immigration policies. My work contributed to Vera reports that guide policymaker and stakeholders nationally.



Creative Action

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Artist

  • Sep 2017 - Apr 2018

  I created lesson plans built around social justice and encouraging creativity for my daily classes to students in ACE after-school programs in the Austin area. I also contributed to creative writing classes for older Austinites from the Alamo Recreation Center, which culminated in a performance art piece to honor the participants. I created lesson plans built around social justice and encouraging creativity for my daily classes to students in ACE after-school programs in the Austin area. I also contributed to creative writing classes for older Austinites from the Alamo Recreation Center, which culminated in a performance art piece to honor the participants.


NYC Teaching Fellows
• United States
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee
• Teacher

  • May 2015 - Jan 2016