Hello

I started this website to showcase and show the rooted connections between all my different forms of work, as well as to find and connect with people to whom I could be of service as a yoga instructor, facilitator, teacher or consultant.

My educational path began with a passion for science, health, art and languages, with an earnest desire to create a better environment for people and nature. In my academic journey, I studied biology and I dabbled in research on cancer biology, microbiology, synthetic chemistry, water purification and environmental health. One of my most exciting research projects was environmental chemistry, analyzing removal and filtration systems for Bisphenol A. I received a bachelor’s in biology with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas in El Paso in 2018. In college I organized the Students’ Green Team to take on several education (earth day lectures and symposiums) and infrastructure projects for sustainability- like the eco-takeouts, bottle filling stations, and bike fix-it stations. From there I found political organizing and national groups like citizens climate lobby with whom I became empowered to learn and participate more as an active citizen that build political power for climate action.

For graduate school, I was at Penn State’s department of biobehavioral health where I was thrust into projects relating to family health and disability research- a field and label that I was adopting due to continuous health obstacles from a high stress environment (I had a tough time throughout COVID! I actually left the program with a masters before completing to the PhD level because of the struggles I was facing as a BIPOC Queer disabled person in a world of systemic complications like COVID, fascism, during the pandemic) . Within my graduate research I was searching for meaningful ways to balance my work as a researcher and advocate.  It was astonishing to learn about the status of academic research and hear so many viable solutions to improve the world systems, and at the same time see the stagnant state of our political economy. When I read the subtext of much of the research on health, I could see that our social determinants, specifically economics, was a root that was taken for granted and assumed unchangeable. Now, as a community organizer I see our macrosystemic organization as a modifiable factor worthy of intervention in the field of health promotion and planetary health. The Alliance for Just Money and the American Monetary Institute which have shown me hope for how our political economy could be modified to improve the health and wellbeing of not only people here in the us but also at a global scale, and also our natural climate systems.  I am enthusiastic to share this knowledge and bring people hope that our social systems that aren’t working can and should be changed.

I want to continue enriching my skills as a facilitator such that in the future, I can lead community-based projects that serve people’s health and the environment. I believe projects such as plant-based diet, sustainable farming and gardening, and sustainable energy independence that target human and planetary well-being at the same time should be incentivized and promoted like our lives depend on it. To target our most imminent threat- the climate emergency, we also need to strengthen our communities and their democratic power, including financial power in the form of #JustMoney.

While I got a degree in biobehavioral health I feel my knowledge and expertise have taken a turn towards ecosystemic health. I have been working with the alliance for just money and reaching for economic justice through reform with a specific set of laws that would help people reach the financial tools to be able to live well. Realizing that social capital is a community tool we can use, and we do not need to wait for a higher power to change the law, we can 1 by one community by community, hand in hand, can tend to our Landscape systems, and health altogether.

My current passion is in community education, and in the transformational work that can be done when people co-create projects, art, and communities—in the overlap of sustainable systems and human health. Community art development is a new branch with high potential to bring people together, with hope and action. As a yoga teacher and artist, I feel I can bring in knowledge from my own journey, healing from disability, travel and language learning, and the joy of learning and sharing.