Documentary and social impact photography
My photography portfolio include street, travel, arts and culture, and documenting grassroots social movements. My goal is to tell visual stories with the power to galvanize people into action.
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Photo essays and visual storytelling
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Event Photography
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Documentary & Journalism
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Portraits
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Arts and Culture
Services and Portfolio
Grassroots leadership development
Organizing is sacred work, difficult, joyful, heartbreaking and deeply personal. Organizers need the kind of support that comes from on-the-ground experience and hard learned lessons. It's critical that social movements harness and invest in the leadership and talents of budding organizers and leaders early on, when they first realize what the work entails. My greatest honor and biggest achievement has been to recruit, onboard, coach, and learn alongside new organizers and leaders. Many organizers who began their journey as part of my team have grown into leadership roles and are driving exciting organizing work!
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Onboarding, training and coaching new organizers and emerging leaders
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Community assessments and participatory action research processes
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Popular political education ​​​​​​​
New Florida Majority 2029 Statewide People's Assembly Organizing Director and Project Manager
Creative and Cultural Organizing
Art and popular cultural expressions are essential in successful organizing models, it's where depth and scale meet, and the best invitation for people to find a political home and bring others along. In my years organizing in Florida and nationally, I trained and supported organizers to integrate art and popular culture into organizing programs and practice.
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Tools for grassroots cultural organizing
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Grassroots and neighborhood-based event planning for base building, GOTV efforts, campaign work, etc
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Local and indigenous talent scouting and recruitment
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Documentation and narrative support​
Sample work and impact
Organizing Resilience and Rebuild.us
When climate disasters hit vulnerable communities, heightened solidarity and the exposure of systemic inequities open an opportunity for communities to build power and push for bold change. By telling survivor's stories and supporting grassroots leadership OR is pushing for essential disaster response policy shifts.
New Florida Majority- Organizing Director
2018-2021. My political home since 2011, I returned to NFM as Organizer Director to launch it's dues paying membership, help give shape to the People’s Assembly process and build leadership development programs for thousands of members and activists throughout Florida
Florida Rising - Membership Director - 2021 -2023 - The role of the membership team lis to train and politicize members, give them tools and paths to lead the work and make decisions at People's Assemblies and campaign committees. FL Rising member leaders are trained to lead popular political education trainings and participatory processes.
Latinas en Marcha, a political home for progressive Latinas in Florida. Under the sponsorship of New Florida Majority, FLIC and the Miami Workers Center, LEM was launched in 2018 with a summit that included poetry, music, food, and politics and featured legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta as keynote speaker. Latinas en Marcha has hosted multiple events and engaged thousands of Latinas in the political process through its growing digital presence.
First Women of Color Democracy Transformation Summit, 2023 . Collaborated in the vision, agenda planning, recruitment and facilitation. The summit convened a cohort of women of color leaders, from elected officials to grassroots leaders from around the country, to come together for co-learning, collective visioning and relationship building.
Florida for All, Latinx Constituency Program - 2020 In partnership with the Venezuelan American Caucus, the Miami Freedom Project , Florida Farmworkers Association, Dominican American National Foundation, Semillas de Colombia and La Mesa Boricua, I coordinated a program to empower country-of-origin organizations to create digital content and organize in-person events to engage their base of voters speaking to the unique nuances of their countries and cultures. ​​
Popular Political Education - 2012 - 2023 - Curriculum development and facilitation - bilingual content, facilitation guides and facilitation trainings for member leaders and organizers across the Florida social justice movement ecosystem.
National Domestic Workers Alliance - Membership Director. 2016-2018 -. Launched the individual membership programs to recruit nannies, care workers and home cleaners and connect them to benefits, resources and strategies to organize for better working conditions as part of the domestic workers movement.
New Florida Majority - Field Director, 2012 . Tested a volunteer voter engagement program with a team of “impact” organizers entrusted with turning out the vote in their own communities. Read report
Collaborators, clients and previous employers
