ABOUT
I'm a multilingual, strategic communications and media professional with background spanning international humanitarian affairs, journalism, podcast production, media relations, public affairs, and international security. I have expertise in developing and executing communications strategies, producing multimedia content, managing interviews and media relationships, monitoring misinformation and disinformation, and communicating complex issues to diverse audiences. I'm also a spokesperson with reporting experience across U.S. and international media outlets and professional fluency in Spanish, and conversational fluency in Levantine Arabic. In my free time, I work to honor my Abuela's legacy by writing the story of her emigration from Cuba to the U.S. in 1971.
As a lifelong storyteller I believe, like Nelson Mandela, "if you talk to a [person] in a language they understand, that goes to their head. If you talk to them in their language, that goes to their heart."
MY WORK
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INTERCROSS: THE PODCAST
LOCAL MAYA IMMIGRANTS SEEK SERVICES — AND VISIBILITY — IN THEIR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
TRIAL FOR 'CAPITAL GAZETTE' SHOOTING HAS BEGUN
JURY SELECTION BEGINS IN TRIAL OF GUNMAN INVOLVED IN CAPITAL GAZETTE SHOOTING
HAIRSTYLISTS ARE ‘THE KEY’ TO GETTING MORE AMERICANS VACCINATED
MODERATING PANEL "BACK TO SCHOOL: SAFELY REOPENING AND MOVING FORWARD" FOR THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE
MARYLAND'S CASA IS VACCINATING LATINO RESIDENTS IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY HARDEST HIT AREA
MODERATING: CLIMATE CHANGE & TRANSPORTATION: BUILDING BACK GREENER & SMARTER
HOW THE NATIONAL GUARD WORKS IN D.C.
AHEAD OF NOVEMBER, D.C. AND MARYLAND FACE A CHALLENGE: NOT ENOUGH POLL WORKERS
MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION: STATE CIRCLE MARCH 1, 2019
A SILVER SPRING FAMILY ACCUSES POLICE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE DURING A NO-KNOCK WARRANT
MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION'S STATE CIRCLE MARCH 12, 2021
PEOPLE ARE USING 3D PRINTERS TO COMBAT THE SHORTAGE OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR HOSPITALS
THESE MARYLAND LAWMAKERS STRATEGIZE ON THE RUN (LITERALLY)
A YEAR LATER, WIDOW OF CAPITAL GAZETTE SHOOTING VICTIM MOVES FORWARD WITH HER GRIEF
TRANSGENDER MILITARY MEMBERS SAY BAN IS ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL 2.0’
SALVATION ARMY OPENS ITS FIRST-EVER SUPERMARKET, IN BALTIMORE
CUBA: FINDING MY ROOTS
A BOTTLE OF RUM AND A LITTLE RUMBA
LIVE ON WYPR'S MIDDAY: FEAR IN A WELCOMING CITY
THE SHATTERED PIECES OF A WAR-TORN EDUCATION
SYRIAN PARENTS IN TURKEY WORRY THEIR KIDS ARE LOSING THEIR CULTURE
TURKEY POST-COUP CRACKDOWN ALSO TARGETS US PROTESTANTS
COPING WITH LOSS OF LIMB AND LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF SYRIA'S WAR
