She has lived and worked in South Los Angeles her entire life and has 15 years of experience working with youth and parents in this community. She has organized and involved residents in campaigns such as, educational equity, civic engagement and food equality. She is currently pursuing a degree in photojournalism, and is Community Outreach Coordinator at the Southside Coalition. As the Community Outreach Coordinator her role is to engage and organize community health center patients and front line staff around key issues impacting the health and wellbeing of the community with a focus on the social determinants of health. Her goal is to open a cultural arts center in South LA to provide residents with the tools to develop their creative voices so that they too can tell the stories of people working to transform lives and communities.