Writer · Researcher · Organizer
Chicago-born writer, researcher, and organizer with 20+ years in racial justice, immigrant justice, and abolition movements.
My dissertation follows Chicago’s mutual aid networks through the 2022 to 2024 new arrival crisis: who carried the work of care when the city’s safety net could not.
I have organized in Chicago for over 20 years, across racial justice, immigrant justice, reproductive justice, youth justice, and abolition movements.
Research &
Writing
Writing
Published research on migration, homelessness, and racial disparities, alongside a dissertation built on 35 interviews.
Workshops
& Talleres
& Talleres
Political education, critical environmental justice, and mutual aid trainings for movement spaces, schools, and organizations.
Work
with me.
Workshops, trainings, speaking, research collaboration, and consulting for movement spaces, schools, funders, and organizations, in English or Spanish.
Workshops & trainings:
- Critical environmental justice
- Forming a mutual aid network
- Abolition and radical imagination
- Latinx history
- Racial justice and equity
Speaking:
- Featured talks
- Plenaries
- Conference panels
- Community report backs
Research:
- Qualitative interviewing
- Policy reports
- Peer-reviewed research
- Commentary and op-eds
Facilitation & consulting:
- Movement spaces
- Schools and school boards
- Funders and nonprofits
- English or Spanish
Partners in the work.
I have facilitated and spoken for movement organizations, funders, schools, libraries, and universities.
Mijente
Faith in Place
Freedom Network USA
Chicago Latines in Philanthropy
Bend the Arc
New Leaders Council
Mujeres Latinas en Acción
IUPLR
InterAction
Sazonblea
Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park District 97