Miami, Florida, United States
I am a multifaceted creative, an artist, poet, songwriter, educator, graphic designer, and creative strategist with a passion for storytelling and visual communication. This artistic foundation shapes my approach to communications and design, allowing me to create works that resonate emotionally, inspire action, and build authentic connections. Building community through art and culture. My background in poetry and music has refined my ability to distill complex ideas into impactful, memorable works, ensuring that every piece I create is not just informative but deeply engaging. As an educator, I understand the power of storytelling in shaping identity, fostering community, and inspiring growth through knowledge and creativity. In addition to my work as a writer, I bring expertise in graphic design and creative strategy, particularly within the nonprofit world. I have developed compelling branding, visual storytelling, and campaign strategies that capture attention, evoke emotion, and inspire meaningful engagement.
At Social Movement Technologies, I serve as a Graphic Design Consultant, working at the intersection of design, digital strategy, and grassroots organizing. In this role, I support movement organizations and campaigns across the country with compelling, values-driven visual communications that inspire action and build power. My work is rooted in the belief that design is not decoration, it’s a political tool. From campaign toolkits to social media graphics, every asset is crafted to reflect the urgency, clarity, and cultural resonance of the movements they represent. I collaborate closely with organizers to translate complex ideas into accessible visuals that move people, emotionally, politically, and collectively. Through this work, I help amplify frontline voices, honor community narratives, and mobilize networks by ensuring that the message looks as powerful as it feels.
I am one of the Founders and serve as Creative Director | A&R + Cultural Strategy of Closed Caption Cafe, a live music platform and cultural production space designed to center artist ownership, narrative integrity, and community. At Closed Caption Cafe, I lead all creative and strategic direction. This includes A&R development, live session curation, artist agreements, publishing frameworks, brand identity, and content strategy. I work directly with artists to shape their performance, structure collaborative releases, and ensure they retain ownership of their masters while participating in shared publishing models. I oversee the full creative ecosystem of the platform, from live recordings and vinyl production to visual design, social media campaigns, and audience experience. Every performance is treated as both a cultural moment and a long-term asset. Beyond production, I build the systems behind the art: contract structures, partnership strategy, distribution pathways, and brand alignment. My focus is not only on highlighting talent, but on creating infrastructure where artists can grow, monetize, and maintain control of their work. Closed Caption Cafe is a platform for sustainable cultural ownership.
Artist in Residence at The Flow Artist Residency Program, a creative incubator supporting artists whose work fosters connection through space, story, and shared experience. Through this residency, I develop and curate multidisciplinary work that brings people together, bridging music, poetry, and cultural programming to create environments rooted in community, reflection, and collective energy. My practice centers on designing intentional experiences that invite audiences to engage not just as spectators, but as participants in something shared and meaningful. Within this space, I explore the intersection of art, culture, and environment, experimenting with how sound, language, and physical space can be used to shape emotion, memory, and connection. From intimate gatherings to immersive activations, each offering is an opportunity to reimagine how we experience art in relation to one another. This residency allows me to further investigate how spaces can be transformed into living, breathing moments, where music, poetry, and community meet, and where people don’t just attend, they feel, reflect, and belong. It is both a creative laboratory and a cultural practice, rooted in the belief that art has the power to gather, heal, and move people toward deeper connection.
Selected for the highly competitive REFORM Advocacy Institute Summer 2025 cohort, hosted in collaboration with Yale University. This immersive leadership and policy fellowship centers directly impacted advocates and emerging leaders in the movement to transform probation, parole, and the broader criminal legal system. Over the course of four weeks, I participated in intensive virtual classes and a 3-day in-person immersive at Yale focused on legislative advocacy, strategic storytelling, policy analysis, and systems change. The program equipped fellows with the tools to lead, organize, and influence policy rooted in lived experience, healing justice, and community power. Key Focus Areas: – Criminal legal reform & movement strategy – Digital & narrative advocacy – Legislative and policy education – Coalition building & campaign planning – Personal leadership development This fellowship deepened my commitment to building systems of accountability, dignity, and repair—and affirmed the power of lived experience as strategic leadership.
I was selected for the REFORM Advocacy Institute, a highly selective leadership and policy fellowship co-hosted with Yale University. Designed for directly impacted advocates, the program brought together a national cohort of emerging leaders committed to transforming probation, parole, and the broader criminal legal system. Over four weeks of intensive virtual sessions and a culminating in-person residency at Yale, we studied legislative strategy, narrative power, policy design, and systems transformation. The curriculum emphasized healing justice and community-centered approaches, grounding policy in the realities of lived experience. Core areas of focus included: – Movement strategy and criminal legal reform – Narrative and digital advocacy – Legislative engagement and policy development – Coalition-building and campaign strategy – Leadership rooted in personal transformation This experience affirmed my belief that those closest to harm must be central to reimagining justice, and deepened my commitment to building systems rooted in accountability, dignity, and repair.