Her most recent documentary Rebel aired as a National PBS special, won a 2014 Erik Barnouw Honorable Mention Award as best historical film in America, and is touring the U.S. Her new play 14 Freight Trains, about the first American soldier to die in Iraq, an undocumented Latino, premieres at Arena Stage in fall 2014. She grew up an undocumented "Dreamer," graduated from Harvard, is a Trustee of NALIP (the National Assoc. of Latino Independent Producers), and a WGAE (Writers Guild of America, East) member. She has won Warren, Rockefeller, George Peabody Gardner, & CPB fellowships. She has served as a visiting artist/scholar at Harvard, Tulane and Brandeis universities.