About
As Director of Advocacy, Legislative Affairs & Community Engagement at AIDS Healthcare Foundation, I build partnerships across the Southern U.S. to unite communities, advocates, and policymakers on housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and public policy. My work focuses on ensuring those most often excluded from care have a voice in shaping the solutions that affect them.
Previously, I served as Policy Director at WeCount!, helping lead efforts to raise labor standards and secure environmental protections for low-wage workers. I developed initiatives to improve living and working conditions by centering the leadership of those most impacted and partnering closely with grassroots movements committed to systemic change.
Before moving into policy work, I served as a Paralegal with the Children’s Legal Program at Americans for Immigrant Justice—the only organization authorized by the federal government to provide legal services to children detained in South Florida shelters. In this role, I worked at the Homestead Detention Center, the nation’s largest facility for migrant children, where I helped reunite families, led legal orientations, and provided “Know Your Rights” education to uphold the standards of care laid out in the Flores Settlement Agreement. This work included supporting trauma-affected youth, including those separated from their families under the 2018 family separation policy.
In earlier roles, I interned at the Community Justice Project, where I represented domestic workers in wage theft proceedings and supported racial justice groups across South Florida. As a student intern at the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project, I helped divert individuals with serious mental illness from the criminal justice system to community-based care.
From 2015 to 2020, I served on the board of the ACLU of Greater Miami, volunteering with their legal team to monitor arrest reports and assess consent decree compliance in the landmark class action homeless-protection case, Pottinger v. City of Miami, brought on behalf of the unhoused.
In my free time, I actively support LGBTQ+ causes and organizing, working alongside other advocates to strengthen community networks and fight for equal rights.
My analysis and advocacy have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Good Morning America, CNN, POLITICO, NPR, and Univision, among others.