I am an architect and urban planner passionate about making public spaces healthier and more equitable and improving public life. My work takes shape in different ways: the preservation of built heritage, the translation of a book about integrated urban planning, through advocacy to give our streets back to people, through social innovation initiatives.

I continue to widen my skills building on human-centered design, problem solving, equity design and social science methods, and community engagement strategies.

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Collaborating with Paisaje Transversal on the dissemination of their integrated, ecological and participatory work methodology to a broader audience.

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Serving as a multilingual content specialist for the NJ Office of Innovation in a cross-agency capacity on their mission to solve public problems differently. Leveraging my expertise in Spanish language to ensure expanded accessibility across numerous digital channels and other key public information platforms, including the COVID-19 Information Hub and Business.NJ.gov.

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Co-leading Transportation Alternatives' Open Broadway campaign through community and stakeholder engagement and advocacy to bring improvements to this corridor that will better serve the massive amounts of pedestrians and cyclists that use it each day

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Designed iterative and strategic engagement efforts for DoSomething Strategic, to build a research council of young people, representative of US demographics, that would inform and influence their future campaigns.

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Conceived and launched an online event, Entre Cuatro Paredes, focused on inspiring younger generations in Spain and helping reduce knowledge gaps that result in disadvantages when entering the labor market.

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Led the initial launch and overall strategy of Kalam Corp.'s first US branch, which culminated in securing the company's first project in NYC.

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Managed several award-winning projects and supervised a team of 6 talented people at Scott Henson Architect.