About me: I’m a Queens kid, born and raised.
My writing explores the intersections of my Puerto Rican and Peruvian heritage, as well as my experience as a lifelong New Yorker with the multicultural sensibility of Queens.
As a writer, editor, translator, and researcher, I have spent the past decade working at various cultural institutions, mainly within academic settings deducated to Latine, Puerto Rican, and Latin American Studies.
My areas of interest include Nuyorican and Latine arts, culture, and history in New York City, Latin American left-wing politics, and municipal politics and grassroots activism in Queens.
Recently, I have been researching the OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, the first Latin American cultural center in Queens, NY. I also have a forthcoming essay in the edited volume Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art (Duke Press, exp. 2025).
In 2022, I received a ‘New Work’ grant by the Queens Council for the Arts to produce a bilingual issue of emerging Latine writers from Queens. And in 2023, I participated in NALAC’s National Leadership Institute as a member of its national cohort.
*CV available upon request