I am a First Gen College Student, Lecturer, and Professional Public Administrator. I had the great fortune of working with youth as a fresh college graduate returning to her community after completing my degree in Gender, Ethnic, and Multicultural Studies. We started up the Youth Leadership Institute grant in East rural Fresno in 2005. Together we learned, planned and organized from an environmental prevention framework to combat alcoholism and its industries.
As a Negotiations, Conflict Resolution, and Peace Building graduate student from CSUDH, I returned to LA in 2007, and coordinated an historical mediation center the APADRC.org. I practiced mediation for community and intergroup conflicts, trained hundreds of adult mediators, and collaborated with local community mediation centers on race, identity, and violent conflicts.
In 2011, I began lecturing at my undergrad Ethnic Studies program. The next year, I also ran one of the largest Pro Bono Programs for detained Immigrants throughout LA County via Catholic Charities. I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge in Volunteer recruitment and start-up programming. I wrote complex legal documents to save lives in court. Detention based work under such dire humanitarian needs shaped me.
Once more I returned with vast experience to my hometown to tackle the poverty crisis. As a Director of one of the largest federal poverty grants in the country performing Family Development I learned a tremendous amount of labor regulations and management experience. Here I earned my Family Development Credential from University Of Connecticut. Together we served some of the most marginalized communities. Crisis Intervention and family goal setting was a major aspect of our mission with families. I feel privileged to have had this experience.
My goals are to expand my knowledge and application of conflict resolution and ethnic studies to artivism, rural to urban peace, and restorative justice works. I currently run my own flower shop and artivism school, La Flor Cosmica. My area of research includes circles and artivism as a way to transform conflict and reclaim ancestral ways of navigating conflict and building self sustainable healing artful peaceful communities.
Specialties: negotiations, peace building, mediation, conflict resolution, youth development, identity disputes, community conflict, Indigenous models of resolving conflict, conflict analysis, Immigration and deportation law, and Artivism.
As a Negotiations, Conflict Resolution, and Peace Building graduate student from CSUDH, I returned to LA in 2007, and coordinated an historical mediation center the APADRC.org. I practiced mediation for community and intergroup conflicts, trained hundreds of adult mediators, and collaborated with local community mediation centers on race, identity, and violent conflicts.
In 2011, I began lecturing at my undergrad Ethnic Studies program. The next year, I also ran one of the largest Pro Bono Programs for detained Immigrants throughout LA County via Catholic Charities. I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge in Volunteer recruitment and start-up programming. I wrote complex legal documents to save lives in court. Detention based work under such dire humanitarian needs shaped me.
Once more I returned with vast experience to my hometown to tackle the poverty crisis. As a Director of one of the largest federal poverty grants in the country performing Family Development I learned a tremendous amount of labor regulations and management experience. Here I earned my Family Development Credential from University Of Connecticut. Together we served some of the most marginalized communities. Crisis Intervention and family goal setting was a major aspect of our mission with families. I feel privileged to have had this experience.
My goals are to expand my knowledge and application of conflict resolution and ethnic studies to artivism, rural to urban peace, and restorative justice works. I currently run my own flower shop and artivism school, La Flor Cosmica. My area of research includes circles and artivism as a way to transform conflict and reclaim ancestral ways of navigating conflict and building self sustainable healing artful peaceful communities.
Specialties: negotiations, peace building, mediation, conflict resolution, youth development, identity disputes, community conflict, Indigenous models of resolving conflict, conflict analysis, Immigration and deportation law, and Artivism.