I’m a writer, painter, translator, educator, and muralist from Highland Park, New Jersey. All my projects work together towards similar goals—exploring the experiences and cultural productions that unite all people, documenting how people actually speak and highlighting their contributions to the development of language, and using artistic expression as a way to bring about social change.

I completed my MFA in Fiction at Columbia University in 2020, and now I’m editing my first novel, which is about New Jersey. I also completed literary translation certificate, in Spanish while writing academic papers on 90s Rap. I’m always working on community-based social justice projects somewhere in NY/NJ, and volunteering at after-school programs to help young people with college admissions. And I’m into birds.