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EXPERIENCE             

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Communication & Marketing Specialist  November 2020 - Present 

Dignity and Power Now   Los Angeles, CA

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Communication Strategist   February 2020 - November 2020 

ACLU SoCal     Los Angeles, CA

 

Impact Producer  2018 - 2019 

Brave New Films     Culver City, CA

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Founding Editor   2017 - 2019

Chispa OC     Santa Ana, CA
 

Anaheim Community Organizer   2013 - 2018

OCCCO     Anaheim, CA

 

Researcher Oral Historian    2018

Million Dollar Hoods, UCLA     Los Angeles, CA

 

Communications Specialist  2015 - 2016

Jose Moreno City Council Campaign     Anaheim CA

 

Reach Higher Fellow  Summer 2015

NCCEP & Obama White House     Washington DC

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EDUCATION             

 

University of California, Los Angeles 

Bachelor's Degree in Chicana/o Studies and Central American Studies 

Minor Arts Education (2018)

USHLI Dr. Juan Andrade Scholarship (Academic) 

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Fullerton College 

Associates Degree in Sociology  (2016)

Youth Motivation Task Force Scholarship (Academic) 

 

California State University, Fullerton 

Research Fellowship in Media Studies & Chicano Studies

(Fall 2014 - Spring 2015)

Upper Division Coursework and Academic Research Training

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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS

 

National Leadership Institute 2019

National Association for Latinx Arts & Cultures San Antonio, TX

 

Macondo Writers Workshop: Creative Nonfiction 2018

Sandra Cisneros & Texas A&M San Antonio San Antonio, TX

 

Poetry Foundation Emerging Poets Fellowship 2017

Poetry Foundation & Crescendo Literary Chicago, IL

 

UCLA Bunche Research Fellowship (2 Year renewal) 2017 - 2018

UCLA’s Department of African American Studies & Chicana/o Studies Los Angeles, CA

 

Senior Thesis Honorable Recognition 2018

UCLA Department of Sociology Los Angeles, CA

 

CSUF Chicana and Chicano Studies Research Program 2014- 2015 

CSUF College of Humanities and Social Sciences Fullerton, CA

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