Community Activist, Scholar and Poet

a Chicana Mestiza activist, educator, and poet. She is a Ph.D. Fellow in Culture, Literacy, and Language in the Department of Bilingual Bicultural Studies at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Her research interests include translanguaging poetics. As co- founder of “Welcome: A Poetry Declaration,” she brings awareness through equity-driven cultural conversations centered on language justice, the preservation of language, and language literacy. Her work, “Matrilineal Poetics: Toward an Understanding of Corporeality and Identity” is featured in Latinas in Hollywood Herstories. Her latest and forthcoming publications are included in The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, South Dakota Review, Rogue Agent Journal, Mom Egg Review, West Trestle Review, Cutthroat: Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century Anthology, Boundless Anthology, and more. She is the author of an extensive critical biography of Dr. Carmen Tafolla published in the forthcoming anthology Chicana Portraits, and her debut poetry collection, Surrogate Eater, published by Alabrava Press.