​Where I Am From and Who I Am

I live in Lower Manhattan, though my roots grow from Brays bayou- East Downtown Houston, Texas. I was raised by healers. My mother, a Chicana social worker and champion of at-risk youth in urban public schools. My father, a cowboy nurse who faced cancer with his patients every day. Their service inspires me.

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I do not fit neatly anywhere. My body, my history, my craft all refuse tidy categories. I am a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and cultural worker. I am multiethnic and queer. I have lived high above the waves toasting champagne and I have stood in grocery lines calculating the price of necessity. Through every cycle, I have stayed hungry, hopeful, and stubbornly committed to art.

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Why I Create

I believe art is a form of radical healing. It is where ideas become flesh and courage becomes contagious. It is why I am here.

I want to make work that invites people to return to themselves. To feel alive. To think freely. To laugh loudly. To challenge what they inherited. I want art that destabilizes the script and offers a new stage on which to stand.

Values matter. Ego matters too. I hold both. The world is too wild and precious to pretend otherwise.

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The Journey That Shaped Me

I am Tejana by birthright and a citizen of the world by design. Before New York, I spent five years in motion. A solo pilgrimage across continents, surviving by my wits and my craft. I wrote, performed, directed, threw parties, and stirred the pot wherever I landed. I practiced being unafraid.

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Cities that have claimed parts of my heart: Tokyo, Taos, Paris, Glasgow, Distrito Federal. And always Houston, where this all started. At eighteen, the Alley Theatre commissioned my first play. A tiny thunderclap that echoed across Texas. That was when I realized I could build worlds.

I earned my BA in Creative Writing at the University of Houston and leapt into global performance, gallery work, and film. Later, I shaped artists’ journeys at a National Parks residency program in Massachusetts. Then came New York. I earned my MA in Arts Administration at Columbia University Teachers College in 2023. I grew sharper. Bolder. More aligned.

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Where I Stand Now

In 2025, I stepped into the role of Executive Producer for Actus Reus, a daring new theater project rewriting how live art meets civic imagination. I am also curator and lead artist of The Sacred & The Profane, a month long exhibition at Erf World in Bushwick exploring the ecstatic power of performance.

My work has traveled globally, gathering audiences in the thousands. Many of my projects remain free and public, because access is a promise I refuse to break.

Collaboration is my ritual. Artists are not cogs in a vision. They are the vision. Creation may become messy, slow, and unruly when every voice matters, yet integrity is worth the complexity.

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What I Refuse

I reject the neocapitalist cultural machinery that sells stereotypes as truth. That rewards passivity. That dilutes rebellion into brand identity. That turns art into background noise for consumerism.

Art should not just be understood. It should be encountered. It should change something.

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What I Carry With Me

I was named after my maternal great grandmother, a reminder that lineage is a living force. My grandparents were salt-of-the-earth farmers who taught me that creation is labor and love braided together.

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I am 31 years old. Pisces sun. Sagittarius moon and rising. My Tarot birth card is The Empress. I like Thai food, go go dancers, drag queens, and classic movies. My mother says I introduced myself to her in a dream before I was born. 

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I came here on purpose.
I chose this moment.
I do not plan to waste it.

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"People say, 'I didn't ask to be born.' I think we did, and that's why we're here. We are here, and we have to do something nurturing that we respect, before we go." -Toni Morrison