I am the Senior Lead Organizer for CADRE. I am part of a team that is responsible moving forward CADRE Right to Education Campaign to end the school to prison pipeline. Under my leadership I’m responsible for developing the leadership of black and brown parents as advocates in school, and advocating for policies that CADRE has won. As an organizer I facilitate and interpret CADRE parents meetings for our base building and leadership pipeline.

In my tenure at CADRE I have identified and recruited 8 parent leaders as CADRE Core leaders since 2015. I have taken a lead in co-facilitating the Parent Empowerment Academy. My greatest lesson while at CADRE has been learning how to think about every step and details in my own leadership development, so I can support CADRE parents. In this process I have learned how to balance my own well being, and learned about my own personal bias. The greatest lesson is to trust the process.

I want to make a difference. As a leader I am committed to the long-term goal of ending the school to prison pipeline. I enjoy the responsibilities and opportunities in involved working with parents and colleagues who together are redefining how our community is seen in South Los Angeles.

I have dedicated 15 years in grassroots organizing, working with parents, students and community members in South Central Los Angeles. I was the Chicano Student Resource Coordinator at the Cross Culture Center in CSULA, a student activist with California Faculty Association (CFA) and a community organizer with the South Central Farmers.

I am currently pursuing my Masters in Fine Art in photography from the Academy of Art University. I received my bachelors in Fine arts from California State University Los Angeles. I am also a proud alumnus from Public Allies Los Angeles. In my studies I have focused my art in being creative in addressing study U.S. policies that marginalize, oppressed and continue to discriminated communities of color. I am Chicano of Kora decedent; my parents migrated to the US when I was 3.