about me 🗺️
Maps fascinate me —not just for navigation, but for their ability to uncover and address patterns of environmental and social injustice through geospatial analyses. ✊🏽
According to the Clifton Strengths Assessment Report, my Top 5 Strengths are:
⭐️ Responsibility | ⭐️ Activator | ⭐️ Empathy | ⭐️ Learner | ⭐️ Relator
Three Achievements I'm Proud Of - Professionally and Personally:
✨ Initiated an elementary school garden with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice in order to combat childhood obesity, which prompted a food justice movement and helped families eat during the pandemic when food banks were overrun and faced shortages.
✨ 6 hours a day, 6 days a week of Water Polo practice to overturn 1-6 to 6-1 winning games in a season, and I met a gold Olympic Water Polo player, Brenda Villa.
✨ Awarded Time to Acknowledge Great Staff for taking on additional projects while meeting my deadlines and assisting teams.
I love to learn new skills. I completed a course on cutting and tailoring a dress, and I received an honorable award in the course. The sewing program offered by my hometown community is a year-long and Spanish-led curriculum, and I will be registered to learn how to sew pants and shirts.
Beyond My Professional Work
My element is in nature. I like to spend time in the outdoors with my dog, Peanut. I adopted Peanut from a no-kill rescue shelter in NYC right before COVID. Peanut is labrador retriever and pitbull mix and ten human years old. Like any dog owner, I have never known unconditional love.
Reading is political. I partake in book clubs centering in disability justice and Latine stories, using literature as a way to deepen my understanding of power, care, and collective liberation.
