How do we help people learn, connect, and build a better future together?

I am a mixed Latina nonprofit leader, educator, writer, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of learning, community, and social impact.

Across classrooms, museums, nonprofits, and public media campaigns, I have spent my career working with three groups: young people, educators, and the organizations that support them. Whether teaching writing, building partnerships, leading organizations, or developing PSAs, my work centers on creating meaningful learning experiences and helping institutions expand their impact.

Over the course of my career, I have helped raise nearly $22 million to support education, arts, environmental, and community initiatives. I believe that learning can help people see new possibilities for themselves—and for the future of their communities.

I am the founder of Girasol Consulting, a Los Angeles–based advisory supporting nonprofits and schools through strategic planning, fundraising, storytelling, and partnership development. My clients have included the University of Virginia, the Hispanic Access Foundation, Environmental Charter Schools, Self Help Graphics & Art, and the Institute for Nonprofit News, a national network of 500 mission-driven newsrooms.

Previously, I served as Executive Director of Amplifier, an award-winning nonprofit media lab that builds storytelling campaigns with artists, journalists, educators, and social movements. Through the Education Amplifier network, I helped lead partnerships with more than 20,000 K–12 educators nationwide, bringing open-source storytelling tools into classrooms to help students better understand how power, policy, and public systems shape their lives.

At Amplifier, I led national partnerships with organizations including the Getty Museum, National Geographic, Meta, Discovery Education, Stanford d.school, Levi Strauss & Co., and the Pop Culture Collaborative. I also oversaw more than 30 public service campaigns focused on environmental stewardship, public health, civic participation, and belonging. This work reached more than one million K–12 students nationwide, earned an IDEA Award from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and led to my recruitment into Education Leaders of Color's inaugural Social Studies Accelerator.

I bring an educator and artists’ lens to leadership, shaped by my roots in dance theatre and my creative writing practice. I have published essays, poetry, and feature stories, and have taught writing at both the K–12 level and at Occidental College.

I hold an M.A. in Journalism from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Modern Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a minor in Latin American and Latino Studies, in honor of my Nicaraguan heritage. A third-generation Angelena, I live in Northeast Los Angeles with my husband and two sons.