About
The standing of any public institution rests on its proximity to the people most affected by what it does.
For the last decade, I have walked alongside communities most institutions are built to overlook: people living with HIV denied lifesaving treatment; domestic workers subjected to wage theft; farmworkers denied protection from extreme heat; people with serious mental illness routed into jails; and children in immigration detention.
The decisions that shape these lives are made about them, not with them. Institutions that drift from the people they affect find them easier to abandon. Helping close that distance, with them, has been my work.
As Director of Advocacy, Legislative Affairs, and Community Engagement at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, I lead policy and government affairs across seven states and Puerto Rico, defending access to HIV treatment, prevention, and care for the people most at risk of losing it.
As Policy Director at WeCount!, I worked alongside farmworkers, day laborers, and domestic workers in South Florida on the labor and climate policies most directly affecting their daily lives.
At Americans for Immigrant Justice, the only federally authorized legal services provider for children detained in South Florida shelters, I served as a paralegal with the Children's Legal Program inside Homestead Detention Center. The work involved one-on-one legal intakes with migrant youth, including children separated from their families under the 2018 family separation policy.
From 2015 to 2020, I served on the board of the ACLU of Greater Miami and volunteered with its legal team to monitor compliance with Pottinger v. City of Miami, the landmark consent decree that shielded unhoused residents from criminalization.
Reporting on these efforts has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Good Morning America, CNN, POLITICO, NPR, and Univision.