She values the combination of medicine, herbal healing, social services and activism at SLHP. She grew up in California and identifies as Chicana, with family coming from Mexico, Peru and Germany. After a short stint on the East Coast to get her B.A. in Spanish literature and Latin American Studies at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, she moved to Oakland in 2007. She got her RN from UCSF in 2011 and a Masters of Science in nursing in 2014. She completed a one year Nurse Practitioner residency at Santa Rosa Community Health Centers, and since then has been happily back in Oakland working at San Antonio Neighborhood Health Center and staying involved in movements for social justice.