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Profile
Multimedia artist and licensed community social worker providing mental health groups in Spanish and English that are rooted in collective healing and community liberation utilizing creative art forms. Specialist in communicating ideas of social inequities and change through oil painting and illustration practice. Active, exhibiting artist with portfolio of work available upon request.
Education
Pacifica Graduate Institute, CA, PhD, Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies (est. 2028)
University of San José, CA, Master of Social Work, Counseling with Spanish-Speaking Communities, Children Youth and Families, graduated Summa Cum Laude (2019)
University of San Francisco, CA, BAS Communication Studies, Minor in Fine Art, graduated Cum Laude (2017)
Selected Exhibitions
A long way from here, Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco, CA (2023)
The Soft Animal of Your Body, The Apiary, Carpinteria CA (2023)
19th Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA (2023)
37th Annual Made in California Juried Exhibition, Brea Gallery, Brea CA (2022)
Connecting Community: Bridges to Understanding, Chan Zuckerberg Community Space Gallery, Redwood City CA (2022)
18th Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA (2022)
(415) Public Gallery, Youth Art Exchange, San Francisco CA (2021)
Solo exhibition, How Have You Been?, Woods Outbound Gallery, San Francisco CA (2021)
Hidden Figures, SFWA Gallery, San Francisco CA (2020)
It’s a Mafficking, Tiny Telephone Gallery, San Francisco CA (2019)
The Art of Pride: LGBTQQI Benefit Art Show, Blackbird, San Francisco CA (2018)
Thinking FWD, Thatcher Gallery, San Francisco CA. Recipient of Judges Choice Award (2017)
What Will Last, Giustina Gallery, Corvallis OR (2016)
Awards
California Arts Council Individual Emerging Artist Fellowship (2023)
Students Choice Award, Thatcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2017)
“Leveraging cultural wealth: Responding/adapting to community needs during times of crisis” (2024)
“A culturally responsive Spanish-language intervention for grief among male, Latino farmworkers in California” (2024)
“El arte sana: Un enfoque holístico de la salud mental en comunidades desatendidas (Art heals: A holistic focus to mental health care in marginalized communities)” (2023)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Lectures and Courses
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Professor for Graduate Course: Gender and Sexuality (2023 - present)
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Professor for Graduate Course: Community Mental Health: Concepts of Recovery, Wellness, Systems of Care and Advocacy Group Work in Clinical Settings (2023)
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Guest Speaker for Art+Architecture Lecture Series: Intersection of Art, Community Mental Health, and Radical Imagination (2021)
Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Peru, Guest Speaker for Masters of Social Work Class, “Relación entre cambio social y arte (Relationship between art and social change)” (2019)
Watsonville Community Birth Worker Collective, Watsonville, CA (2023 - present)
Campesina Womb Justice, Santa Cruz, CA (2020 - present)
Rancho San Benito Farmworker Liberation Cooperative, Half Moon Bay, CA (2021 - 2023)
Collectives
Create Magazine, Curated Section, 1 (30), 120-123. (2023)
Publications
Languages
Spanish — Fluent
English –– Fluent