Teaching Artist

Make Your Mark! Printmaking for Youth-Led Activism workshop as part of CRUCES: Youth Summit, organized by The Clemente Center and LxNY, hosted by the Museum of Modern Art Public Engagement Department on Saturday, November 22, 2025. CRUCES is a signature series within Historias, The Clemente’s multi-year initiative dedicated to re-centering Latinx narratives in New York City’s cultural landscape. Learn more at: Historias.NYC.

© 2025 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Destiny Mata.

In the summer of 2025, as a CUP Teaching Artist, I partnered with Opportunity Network students to investigate how federal immigration policies, like ICE raids and deportation practices, affect immigrant communities in NYC. To explore this question, students talked to community members, interviewed stakeholders working on the issue, and studied printmaking and quilting. View the project.

As a Teaching Artist with CUP, in the fall and winter of 2024, I collaborated with students from the Bronx School for Law, Government, and Justice to investigate food insecurity in the Bronx. The class asked how government programs, social factors, and distribution systems shape people’s access to food. View the project.

As a teaching artist and co-founder of Girlz by Design, we’ve created curricula focused on a variety of design disciplines, from animation to UX/UI. Pictured here, we lead a group of students to create their own virtual interior space using SketchUp.

Girlz by Design partners with Serve Your City Ward 6 Mutual Aid to create a design material that supports a community-identified need. By following the design thinking steps: empathize, define, brainstorm, prototype and test, students grow their understanding of the iterative design process and the importance of human-centered design.

Students think critically about a need in their local community and create a final design material that Serve Your City can actually use. For two years, we have supported students to create a wellness pamphlet that’s distributed to 500 D.C. students each school year. Visit @Girlzbydesign on IG for updates.

All students in New York have a right to an education that equips them for active, civically engaged lives, but what does that look like in practice? I developed a youth participatory action research (YPAR) curriculum for DemocracyReady NY youth members to investigate a school issue of their choosing. They set out to explore the state of civic education in their high schools, surveying students and teachers across New York State to better understand the challenges and disparities in access to quality civic learning opportunities. Students shared their first iteration of findings in the Spring of 2025, and are continuing their research into 2026. Learn more.

As the Director of Youth Programs, I’ve led youth members in multi-year explorations to shape recommendations for media literacy education in NY State. From schools, big tech, and media creators - students wanted to understand who is responsible for shaping how young people consume and understand digital content? Their latest advocacy event featured intergenerational expert insights and actionable strategies to support media literacy in an increasingly complex online landscape. Watch the 2025 event.