- Founded Vuela Co to enhance capacity in climate justice and community resilience through strategic program development, event management, reporting, and communication.- Leading stakeholder engagement research on creating clear climate career pathways for community organizers.- Provided pro-bono event management for Nature Nexus Institute's Latino Conservation Week, moderating a panel of Latine women leaders, coordinating workshops, and recruiting 15 organizations for resource booths.- Developed outreach strategy and comprehensive communication materials to engage 100 high school and college students, support partners, and ensure smooth event operations.

- Co-raised $1,072,750 in funding for community programs by leading grant writing and fundraising efforts.- Organized 98 community outdoor events, providing 231 hours of green space access, and facilitated 4,570 hours of arts and cultural activities.- Engaged 1,486 community members, promoting cultural awareness and community well-being.- Managed the hiring of 59 artists and cultural practitioners, supporting local talent and cultural engagement.- Authored Teapot’s first Community Impact Report 2024, highlighting key outcomes and community feedback.- Teapot Gardens is committed to increasing access to free art and nature-based programs in Los Angeles, using a grassroots, people-centered, co-creation approach to foster connections, wellness, and creative purpose for youth and adults of all ages. We advocate for community-driven solutions to issues such as park inequities, social isolation, and mental health challenges.- As a hub for artists and cultural practitioners, Teapot Gardens serves as a welcoming space for everyone who wants to create art and connect with nature. We connect our community to resources that uplift and generate abundance, supporting a vibrant and inclusive creative environment.

- Supported emissions reduction and reporting for SaaS clients, generating baseline emissions reports.- Progressed to Project Manager, leading four small business outreach projects for utility companies, including campaigns focused on wildfire resilience, cost-saving, energy efficiency, and support for farmers.- Led a landscape analysis and developed strategy for a social enterprise in clean beauty Influencer Ambassador Program, enhancing sustainability outreach efforts.

Evaluated Danone’s business resilience strategy by using a scenario logic matrix to assess profit margin expansion factors, plant-based health marketing trends, soil health and carbon sequestration farming practice investments, and board and CEO governance dynamics. Conducted interviews with representatives from Stony Field Organic, Lynden Milk Hauler, and Danone North America.

Developed a marketing plan with a competitor analysis, SWOT analysis, business model canvas with value proposition, and customer segmentation strategy to further their impact for regenerative agriculture projects.

Los Angeles Neighborhood Council System (Organizational Leadership, 2020): Created a four frames needs assessment and change strategy that aligns culture, trust, and diversity with the bureaucratic procedures.

- Led the Resilerador business resilience course for Spanish-speaking farmers, successfully graduating 100 farmers and 75 agricultural businesses.- Managed full program lifecycle, ensuring high engagement and course completion.- Facilitated the distribution of $185K in relief grants and provided disaster relief support to farmers.

- Developed a human-centered corporate-community engagement study with Verizon, identifying climate equity solutions through extensive stakeholder engagement.- Contributed to a white paper on integrating climate resilience into corporate strategies.- Created a stakeholder impact report database for SaaS clients, focusing on best practices in trust and accountability.

I advocate for Resilience and Emergency Preparedness, Outdoor, Park and Recreation Equity, Youth Empowerment Programs, and collaborative team environments. Achievements: Set the team-building baseline at the MINC virtual executive board retreat by facilitating relationship-building activities and shared vision planning (Nov 2020). The art contest project (Jan 2021) reached over187 artists with 615 submissions, engaged with over 100 community members at our Art Gala celebration, secured and will transform Washington Blvd into a public outdoor gallery. Awarded $3,000 grant for the art contest banners and median plant beautification from the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (April 2021)Civic Roles:- Attend Board and Stakeholder Meetings to discuss and facilitate community discussions on city-related matters. Member of the Budget Committee, Racial Justice Committee, Public Arts Committee, and Outreach and Planning and Land Use Committee. Community Cohesion, Culture, Communications: - Supported the project development, website content and outreach production for the Mid City Artist Project Art Contest. - Co-designed a equity-oriented (no barrier to entry) contest guidelines to accept all levels of artists. - - Community Resilience: - Developing a community education strategy to promote the MINC Resilience Plan. We are working on identifying key activities, events, partners and volunteer roles to motivate neighborhood preparedness, empowerment and resilience.

Developed a critical theory assignment and lecture to discuss how multi-sector partnerships can advance conservation research and to identify the socio-economic intersectional factors in their ecological research question. IMPACT: Students' final projects integrated social, cultural, and economic factors in their conservation research question. Topics research included indigenous biodiversity stewardship; twitter sentiment analysis on human perceptions of climate change; food security, income, and race indicators in urban garden benefits and access; comparing human land use factors and health of coral reef. Review proposal document, review applications, provide feedback on outreach materials, and participation in reviewing and selecting scholars.

- Directed communication efforts for the Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment, engaging communities and local officials in resilience planning.- Managed partnerships and technical assistance for grantees, supporting community-based sustainability initiatives.- Produced the Government Operations GHG Emission Report and Climate Action Plan, providing critical data for county sustainability efforts.

- Managed the corporate breast pump rental set-up and quarterly tech servicing. -Conducted mother's room report for corporate clients and provided technical. design, and education material recommendations to improve the usage, safety, and environment. - Coordinated with facilities departments, wellness managers, and human resource managers. - Managed the fix-it tickets and assisted with damage prevention tools. - Conducted training for new mother's room technicians. - Create data analytics, visual graphics, and recommendations.

- Attended the Digital Excellence Program for Entrepreneurs with Google and Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth. Developed the digital strategy, google analytics metric plans, and digital leadership persona for Healthy Horizons. - Managed the weekly newsletter, content development for store brands and online event calendar for in-store services. -Created social media calendar featuring breastfeeding policy, informational blogs, and product campaigns. - Developed training guides and informational graphics for in-store employee training.

Created a financial impact model that forecasted United Health Group's performance given the technical advances in AI, public health responses to climate change, and effective civic engagement in health policy.

Developed an mission-aligned investor toolkit that assessed the financial growth potential of the educational travel industry using a forecast valuation model, researched alternative crowdfunding platforms, and personalized ESG-metrics that quantify globalism, divergent thinking, and civic education and leadership.

Created supplier packaging guidelines to reduce packaging waste for their suppliers with a waste minimization balanced scorecard, a waste audit recommendation plan, and an operational flow chart for returnable packaging system.

Applied solidarity economic framework to address job access issues for immigrants and to stimulate the local economy through human empowerment and community integration programs.

Contextualized the Public Benefit Corporation decision through a financial statement analysis, comparison between B-Corp and SASB standards, and CSR commitments.

Systems approach to food security in the US .

Conducted independent research on bee diversity and floral spatial distribution in urban gardens in the Central Coast of California. Curated bee collection, identified plants, conducted data analysis in ArcGIS and R. Conducted field work with team. Presented project findings and progress reports for lab meetings. Conducted literature reviews. Wrote undergraduate thesis

Conducted vegetation and insect surveys, collaborated with teams to collect and analyze data, attended lectures from social and political agroecologist. Enhanced cross-cultural understanding between researchers in the US and Mexico. Increased multicultural teamwork skills. Determined the importance of local and landscape management characteristics for enhancing biological control of pest in urban gardens.

Exercised stewardship, restoration, conservation and ecological management of various plant communities. Conducted propagation of native plants, removal of invasive plants, restoration of Chaparral and coastal plant communities. Maintained and watered the main nursery. Knowledge in California Native plants.

Conducted experimental models to test the pesticides avoidance hypothesis on Turkish honeybees and Turkish native bees. Conducted behavioral assays to test effects of food quality and conditioning to pesticide dosages. Led the design of the experiment of manipulating visual floral cues to understand foraging dynamics and handling time behavior of bees. Designed experiments, processed and ID insect specimen, and interpreted and analyzed data. Presented findings in poster symposiums.