My relationships shape me into the Artist and Activist that I am.
I believe that community is at the root of healing and that investing in each others stories - through our relationships is how we will change the world.
That is why storytelling is the altar I keep - through Poetry, Public Speaking, Organizing, & Community Workshops.
What it’s like be in community at one of my workshops:
"Learning to organize through art is something I never thought possible for me"
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"We learned to be vulnerable with strangers"
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"This was my first time writing poetry, I want to create more spaces like this along the border"
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"Learning to organize through art is something I never thought possible for me" 〰️ "We learned to be vulnerable with strangers" 〰️ "This was my first time writing poetry, I want to create more spaces like this along the border" 〰️
"I've been to writing workshops, but not like this one (Poets have the Power, Protest Poetry)
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"Our ancestors are proud"
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"I have never thought to write like this"
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"I've been to writing workshops, but not like this one (Poets have the Power, Protest Poetry) 〰️ "Our ancestors are proud" 〰️ "I have never thought to write like this" 〰️
"This community is so special"
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"I could see myself there, I learned something from the lived experience shared"
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"We need more workshops like this for our LGBTQ & POC community"
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"This community is so special" 〰️ "I could see myself there, I learned something from the lived experience shared" 〰️ "We need more workshops like this for our LGBTQ & POC community" 〰️
Workshops Facilitated
Poets Have the Power, Exploring Protest Poetry. Presented to (SEAT) Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (2026)Austin Bat Cave, Creative Writing Workshop Series. After School Program Linder Elementary (2025-2026)
Courageous Cadence: Rhyme in Resistance. Revision, Digital Literacy & Zine Development (Annual, 2025-2026)
Courageous Cadence: Rhyme in Resistance. Foundations: Community, Identity, & Justice (Annual, 2024-2025)
Courageous Cadence: Rhyme in Resistance. Writing as Resistance (Annual, 2024-2025)
Courageous Cadence: Rhyme in Resistance. Acting & Voice for Poets (Annual, 2024-2025)
Courageous Cadence: Rhyme in Resistance. Slam Clinic: Competitive Craft, Performance Strategy, and Embodied Justice (Annual, 2024-2025)
Ecology Action: Nature Writing Workshop (2025)
Green New Theatre, the Vortex. Playwriting Youth Residency (2025)
Indigenous Cultures Institute, Summer Encounter Writing Workshop Series: Exploring Relationship to Self, Exploring Relationship to Plants, Exploring Relationship to Elements, Exploring Relationship to Animals (2024-2025)
Queerness Weaved Into Ancestral Memory (2024)
Nahuatl Revitalization Poetics (2024)
Exploring Anti-colonialism and Protest on the Page: Co-facilitated with Ayling Zulema Dominguez (2024)
Cultural Arts and Advocacy Events (not including weekly events hosted with every.Word Poetry):
Art is Activism: Riches Art Gallery x LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (Forthcoming)
When the River Speaks Issue Release & Open Mic (2026)
Black History Month Showcase: every.Word Poetry at the Texas State Capitol 89th Legislative Session (2025)
Host for Heritage Stage at Austin Powwow (2025)
Noche de Liberación: Las Ofrendas x Riches Art Gallery (2025)
Community Vigil in honor of Jonathan Joss: Native American Cultural Center (2025)
Sacred Waters of Mother Earth: Water Prayer. Collaboration with Start Empowerment (2025)
Honoring our Ancestors: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis and Domestic Violence Awareness Workshop (2025)
Indigiqueer Visibility: Panelist (2025)
The Aftermath of SB17, Teach-In: Representing the Native American Indigenous Collective (2024)
Indigenous People’s Week Round Table and Open Mic: Living Our Languages, how we experience language, its loss, revival, and reconnection (2024)
Dia De Los Muertos: Learning Indigenous Traditions, Miccailhuitl (2024)
Feast on This: Anti-thankgiving feast (Annual, 2023-2024)
Four Directions (Annual, 2023-2024)
Ribbon Skirt Fashion Show (2024)
Native American Indigenous Collective Powwow (2024)
Medicine Wheel Ride: Panelist, Queerness in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Epidemic (2024)
MMIW Week of Action AITSCM: Panelist, Realities of two-spirit people in MMIW (2024)
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis: Understanding the Dynamics of Indigenous Survivorship (2023)
Press (Interviews)
“Not a Faculty Senate, but the Texas Senate’: Senate Higher Ed Subcommittee Signals Expanded Political Interference”. Texas AFT (2024)
“Delay of Native Studies course approval raises community concerns”. The Daily Texan (2024)
“UT community celebrates connections to indigenous languages as part of Indigenous Peoples’ Week”. The Daily Texan (2024)
“An act of resistance': UT Indigenous students to host large powwow off campus amid SB 17”. Austin American Statesman (2024)
Full list of engagements — upon request
