I’m originally from Los Molinos, a town of about 1,500 people located in rural, northern California. I grew up on a small, organic family farm which my mom managed while my dad ran his landscape design and consultation business. They taught me that if I worked hard, anything would be possible.

I attended UC Berkeley. I studied political science and public policy. I became a writer, an organizer, and an activist.

Upon graduating in 2014, I packed up my 1999 Honda Civic and drove across the country to start a new life in Washington, DC.

Those next few years, I interned at the Obama White House, organized on a U.S. Senate race in Iowa, served as an Obama White House advance associate, and oversaw gun violence prevention programming at Generation Progress, the youth arm of the Center for American Progress (CAP).

When Donald Trump became the GOP nominee for president, I decided to leave CAP to try to stop him. I moved to Ohio and ran Hillary for America's statewide youth digital outreach program. Unfortunately, the outcome was not what we had hoped.

I returned to DC after the election and began working at an upstart nonprofit called The Hub Project. I spent the next seven years fully immersed in this organization, focused on adapting our communications approach to the changing media landscape. The world around us is portrayed more accurately when diverse voices are heard. And I really believe that the emergence of content creators into the media space represents significant progress in terms of broadcasting a more colorful, relatable, and honestly enjoyable way to communicate about what’s happening.

We were one of the very first advocacy organizations to partner with creators in 2019. I continued down this path, taking time off to to support the creator program for then-President-Elect Joe Biden’s digital inauguration.

In 2024, I reached a career milestone at The Hub Project when we hosted Trending Up, a first-of-its-kind conference of social media creators who were curious about advocacy, but had rarely or never formally engaged in our political process before. Many of those creators went on to be credentialed as media for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL.

After the convention, I left my job of seven years at The Hub Project to join the Harris for President campaign as their Deputy Director of Digital Partnerships, overseeing the campaign’s groundbreaking battleground creator program. It was the largest creator program by a political campaign in global history. I’m so proud of what we accomplished, but despite our best efforts, we were unable to overcome the headwinds we faced and our opponent ultimately won.

For the foreseeable future, I plan to freelance, working with leaders across the political landscape who recognize the need to shift our communications approach. If you think it might make sense to collaborate, please reach out; I’d love to hear from you.