Projects

Voces de Latinidad, National Endowment for the Humanities & National Hispanic Cultural Center, Project Manager, 2022-Present

Voces de Latinidad will bring together members of the community to explore diversity and complexity of the many cultural aspects that shape Hispanic, Mestizo, Latino/a/e, Chicano/a, Indígena/o identity and lived experiences in the Albuquerque area. The project will culminate with a collection of short videos of each event and one longer documentary film that shows a community in the process of engaging with identity and history in a thoughtful and inclusive manner.

Plan and manage the initial stages of project implementation, and all aspects of 6 Community Listening Sessions.

Lead one on one community interviews process, including developing interview protocols, questions, and logistics.

Collaborate with Artistic Director and other project contractors on creative direction, content, and style of final product (documentary film).

Voces de Latinidad Documentary Short, Director/Producer- Official Trailer

Santa Fe Community Foundation, Trainer and Guest Speaker
Antiracism, JEDI, and Allyship in Your Organization
Lead a JEDI/antiracism training session to help Executive Directors and nonprofit leaders reflect on biases and privileges, learn how to foster a JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) culture in thier organization and sector, and identify ways to be an ally and support marginalized communities.

Santa Fe Community Foundation, Facilitator & Guest Speaker
Diversifying Nonprofit Board of Directors, Nonprofit Board Fundamentals Cohort 

  • Creating board and organizational culture that embraces and supports DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion)
  • Identifying what success looks like and evaluating the organization’s performance in achieving this success
  • Ensuring the board’s actions reflect DEI values

Building Movement Project, Consultant, 2013-2023
Building Movement Project works redefine the future of nonprofit leadership by working across race, age, and other identities, engages in systems change work that aligns organizational principles and practices by engaging constituents in changing the systems that impact their lives, and movement building to harness nonprofit’s capacity to collaborate and organize for social change.

Inform Strategy: consultants in BMP’s state strategy, and document lessons-learned to inform collective strategizing about the future direction for BMP’s work in New Mexico.

Advisory Committee: Maintain relationship with Advisory Committee members, facilitate committee meetings and calls, set meeting agendas, and plan meeting logistics.

Support BMP’s Research Agenda: Lead marketing communications efforts to promote surveys and other data collection efforts related to the state’s nonprofit workforce (particularly low-wage workers and people of color), and conduct focus groups and interviews with nonprofit leaders as needed to gather qualitative insights to bolster findings from data. 

Webinars/Blog Posts

Webinar Recap: Race to Lead in New Mexico
Webinar Recap: New Mexico and the Effects of COVID-19 on Leaders of Color

Additional Blogs/Writings

The Seeds We Plant: Semillas Por Vida
Staying Rooted During a Pinche Pandemic

A selection of Film/Video, Radio and Photography work:

Film & Video
Photography
Radio