Accomplished and award-winning communication professional with strong analytical, speaking, & writing skills. Founder and Team Lead of premiere bilingual certified Latina/minority woman-owned & operated Public Relations and Productions company: Aurora Communications. Current campaigns include:• Producing, promoting and publicizing concerts for City College's Aaron Davis Hall. • • Strategizing & implementing Communications for The Silent Procession for Puerto Rico, a humanitarian effort to focus on the unequal treatment of this U.S. Colony resulting in mainstream, Hispanic and African American media coverage.• Appointed Communications Consultant for Latino outreach to Presidential, Mayoral, and City Council political races increasing Hispanic voter turnout. • Produced, publicized, and promoted high visibility local, Tri-State, national and international campaigns and publicity events focused on education, recruitment, entertainment as well as government relations for the telecommunications, food, health, labor and entertainment industries. • As public relations counsel and liaison to McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, Verizon and others, positioned clients and increased visibility, media clippings, and broadcast time in state & national media across all communication channels including paid, unpaid, public service announcements and social media in multi-cultural communities. Planned media events, managed media relations, focus groups, media audits, and bilingual surveys while establishing community partnerships. • Led, trained and supervised a team of thirty for MCI during the telephone divestiture. • Excellent troubleshooter and crisis-management consultant analyzing and devising a multi-tiered, cause-related campaign for Pathmark Supermarkets garnering positive editorial opinions from leading New York media earning a P.R. award.

Currently leading N.Y. 's world music & salsa band: Zon del Barrio alongside percussionist & Fania All-Star Nicky Marrero. According to the Clearwater Festival review: "Zon del Barrio is one of the few orchestras to express the varied genres of Latin music from the African Diaspora to the urban streets of New York w/ updated and creative arrangements."ZDB has appeared on the stage of Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing; @ the Copacabana in a sold-out tribute to the late Fania All-Star alum, Yomo Toro; in the largest salsa fest of Europe: Vic-Fezensac in Toulouse, France; @ the Versailles Castle in Paris for GlobalFest; @ the Heineken Kalalu Fest in St. Lucia; on tour w/ the Afro-Cuban Louie Armstrong of the trumpet Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros through Martinique & Guadaloupe; as the house band for the National PR Day Parade 2x in a row and as the official band of the NY Knicks, 7x in a row. Aurora & Zon del Barrio perform many lecture/demonstrations, clinics and master classes on the History of Latin Music, theory, and drumming from salsa to plena, bomba, merengue, and boogaloo.www.zondelbarrio.comAs a media specialist:30 years of “hands-on” experience in entertainment management, media tours,press conferences, event planning and management, publicity & promotions,conference management,public relations campaigns, speech writing, corporate communications, crisis management, product & event promotions, rollouts and marketing campaigns.Cultural Consultant to various organizations, in particular, the hit children's TV show over MTV's Nickelodeon, Dora the Explorer. Composer of bilingual songs for Dora the Explorer.Conduct lecture/demonstrations on the history of Latin music.Consultant on various films on Latinos and Latin music.Writing: articles, essays, liner notes, ads, speeches, policy papers, etc.

Assisting a great team of dedicated and committed community organizers in promoting the efforts and improvements on behalf of the Speaker for a better East Harlem & South Bronx through events, programs, conferences and partnerships.

Provided strategic public relations efforts to in-house clientsNew Business developmentWritingProposal & pitch developmentmarketing support

Hired as the first female music correspondent covering Latin music & R&B beat for this global entertainment magazine. Wrote a weekly column and feature articles.