I move through my work as a queer, nonbinary person of color — and that's not incidental to what I do.
My practice in facilitation, advocacy, and community education is shaped by lived experience navigating systems that thirive on the oppression of people like me and the communities I serve. This lens is integral to every space I share, whether I'm supporting survivors, training practitioners, or holding space for difficult, but critical conversations.
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Designed and facilitated a community workshop for LGBTQ+ folks at Boyfriend Co-Op, a local lesbian-owned bar and café, centering ancestral veneration as a practice of care, memory, and rootedness. The session opened with a group discussion on altars and their role in sustaining oral histories, moved into dedicated creative space for drawing and sculpting figurative or abstract images for personal altars, and closed with communal storytelling from participants sharing the people and lineages they carry. The workshop also held space for those new to altar practice, offering grounded conversation on altar curation as a radical act of remembrance in late-stage capitalism.
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ollaborated with GMHC's ACRIA Center on HIV and Aging to design and facilitate a community listening series exploring sexual health, wellness, and lived experience among older adults living with and affected by HIV in New York City. Work included developing a facilitation guide, supporting recruitment strategy across three focus groups (including GMHC-affiliated and community-based cohorts in multiple boroughs), and co-authoring a white paper synthesizing findings for partner engagement and public presentation. Findings were shared at GMHC's annual HIV and Aging Conference.
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Through their own voices and images, this Passing It Forward project links the personal stories of LGBTQ+ elders of color --those around 50 years old and above-- to the political and social movements they are connected to. The collection consists of 150 interviews with LGBTQ+ elders of color, conducted by interviewers of around college age. These intergenerational conversations allow this growing and important population to reflect on their life and wisdom. By doing so, this project provides a venue to allow these individuals to educate and inspire.
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Organizer, facilitator, and Member-Lead with the Audre Lorde Project, a center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color communities in NYC. Served as an active member of Safe Outside the System (SOS), ALP's community accountability initiative, and represented Communities for Police Reform. Led workshops, meetings, and organizing sessions as part of the Daring to Be Powerful (ALP's signature program for building skills, political analysis, and collective power among QTBIPOC communities). Also participated in 3rd Space, healing justice work. Lead a workshop at ALP's Community Care and Safety Day in Bed-Stuy (2024)
