Experience

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  Afscme local 3299

  Jan 2013 - May 2014

  Organizing intern

  - Organized campus-wide food service, maintenance, and custodial workers for demonstrations and long-term action plans to achieve economic justice for workers. - Facilitated Student-Worker Coalition meetings to mobilize students and workers to organize together.

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  Undergraduate research apprenticeship program

  Sept 2014 - Jul 2015

  Research apprentice

  - Collaborated on a qualitative study with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health through coding and data analysis, while contributing relevant perspectives and experiences based in critical race and gender theory.

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  Restorative justice center at uc berkeley

  Sept 2014 - May 2015

  Web, social media, and marketing associate

  - Developed and updated three social media platforms biweekly, as well as printed material.- Taught a Restorative Justice course, and developed a curriculum based in restorative practices.

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  Mcnair scholars program at uc berkeley

  Dec 2014 - Aug 2015

  Student researcher

  - Qualitatively researched the Restorative Justice program in Oakland Unified School District, and conducted interviews, observations, and background research.

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  Santa ana unified school district

  Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

  After school instructional provider

  - Taught a class of 43 middle school students, used social justice-based curriculum to help students improve their academic work and interpersonal relations.- Regularly used restorative practices to resolve conflicts among students and build community.

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  Orange county environmental justice

  Nov 2016 - Apr 2017

  Community organizer

  - Organized and conducted surveys throughout Orange County, to document local environmental justice issues. - Identified and recruited potential leaders by assessing their social awareness and interpersonal skills.

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  Orange county department of education

  Apr 2017 - Jul 2017

  Administrative assistant

  - Assisted Spanish-speaking families in navigating and enrolling in the ACCESS alternative education program in Orange County, using interpersonal skills to work with clients and assure that their educational needs are met. - Employed detailed organizational abilities to edit, organize, and log a variety of client documents and contracts.

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  American bar association immigration justice project

  Aug 2017 - Jul 2019

  Post-release coordinator

  - Helped obtain the release of over 40 detained migrants by designing and presenting individualized housing and mental health treatment plans in their bond hearings; and helped each of these clients navigate these and other community resources after their release.- Advocated and provided emotional support for detained and recently-released clients, utilizing crisis de-escalation and harm reduction techniques to help homeless clients with histories of addiction achieve goals.

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  El centro cultural de méxico

  Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

  Community lands organizer

  • Built coalitions between grassroots collectives, non-profits, and public schools to educate and mobilize Santa Ana residents to seize land in their neighborhoods to create community farms and housing cooperatives. • Designed and delivered workshops on community land trusts, cooperative economics, and a Horizontal Organizing series focused on consensus-based facilitation, popular education, and transformative justice. • Successfully wrote grants and devised fundraising strategies to fund Indigenous land defense projects; assisted in gathering data and grant reporting to assure funding for El Centro’s ongoing organizing work. Show less

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  Santa ana unified school district

  Mar 2020 - Nov 2020

  Instructional assistant provider

  • Tutored students grades 8 through 12 in Language Arts and Mathematics, using Freirian popular education techniques to help them recognize their own strengths and connect their studies to their lived realities. • Developed and taught a weekly workshop on LGBTQ+ history and current struggles around the world via interactive social media, as well as weekly meetings of Saddleback High School’s LGBTQ+ Youth Club, discussing the workshop topics as well as the challenges LGBTQ+ students face.

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  California state university, fresno

  Aug 2020 - Nov 2020

  Writing consultant

  • Advised graduate students at CSU Fresno in improving their academic writing, using facilitative questions to guide students in the research process and in writing clearer, more well-structured and well-supported papers. • Facilitated a weekly multi-disciplinary thesis writing group, assisting students step-by-step in the construction and review of their graduate theses.

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  Orange county environmental justice

  Nov 2020 - now

  Executive director

  • Quadrupled the organization’s budget over 3 years, expanded staff from 2 to 7, and coordinated its campaigns to address soil-lead and water contamination; to equitably redraw Orange County’s electoral districts; and to train youth of color to address environmental injustices in their communities at the root. • Designed and implemented a youth organizing internship centered on defending Tongva and Acjachemen sacred sites across Orange County from development and returning them to their indigenous caretakers. Show less