About
The standing of any public institution rests on its relationship to the people most affected by what it does. For the last decade, my work across the South has been to walk alongside communities for whom that relationship has most often failed: low-income people living with HIV; farmworkers, domestic workers, and home health aides subjected to wage theft; people with serious mental illness routed into jail; unhoused residents; and children in immigration detention. Their rights are made conditional by systems built without their voices. Changing that, with them, has been my work.
As Director of Advocacy, Legislative Affairs & Community Engagement at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, I lead policy and government affairs across seven states plus Puerto Rico.
Previously, as Policy Director at WeCount!, I worked on labor and climate policy with farmworkers, day laborers, and domestic workers in South Florida.
At Americans for Immigrant Justice, the only federally authorized legal services provider for children detained in South Florida shelters, I worked as a paralegal with the Children's Legal Program inside the Homestead Detention Center. That work included helping enforce the Flores Settlement Agreement through one-on-one legal intakes with migrant youth, including children separated from their families under the 2018 family separation policy.
From 2015 to 2020, I served on the board of the ACLU of Greater Miami and volunteered with its legal team on Pottinger v. City of Miami, the landmark consent decree shielding unhoused people from criminalization.
My analysis and advocacy have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Good Morning America, CNN, POLITICO, NPR, and Univision.