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I spend most of my time breaking down and rebuilding concepts of identity, with the goal of building homes for people like me—los que no son ni de aqui, ni de allá. My passion and purpose is co-creating spaces where women, queer, trans, two-spirit, and people of the global majority can see themselves and therefore believe that the opportunity to find their fullest potential exists, even when it doesn’t yet. At 19 years old I birthed She Shreds Media—the world’s first and only guitar magazine dedicated to women guitarists—as an answer to the misconception that “girls don’t play guitar.” Since 2016, I’ve created songs and experiences as Reyna Tropical that bring attention to the injustices, histories, and joys existing within Queer Love & Afro Mexico—a project investigating the tropical diaspora. Today, I’m answering to a vision, a feeling, a voice urging me to facilitate the Mixta (MEE-sh-TA) movement: a home for the mixed race diaspora: de-colonizing, de-assimilating, and re-rooting.

The Written and Spoken Word... Music

ideas and helping others achieve their goals

Changing the way the world 'works'

Literature of all kinds, but most specifically that which is created and disseminated to young people of diverse backgrounds. I’m constantly making work, trying to figure out better ways to engage young people and perpetuate not just a love for literature, but a growth of literacy.

Trying to look at things the opposite way to everyone else.