YOU ARE ENOUGH.

Advocacy chose me. I was an advocate before I even knew what advocacy was. My journey as an advocate started when I was a kid interpreting for my mom. I learned early on that if I didn’t speak for us, we didn’t exist.

Tell us about some of your goals and dreams for you personally and professionally.

Professionally i’d like to publish a memoir that I have been writing forever. Go on tour as a motivational speaker. And personally, I’d like to graduate with my master’s this spring, create an amazing documentary, and debut it at the cinema. But most importantly, continue impressing my mom.

What was it like being nominated for the Athena Award this year? Honestly, it was shocking. Advocacy is often a thankless job. A mountain you keep climbing because if you stop, then nothing changes. It felt like my work was finally recognized on a grander scale.

naturally developed in the diversity, equity, and inclusion space because of who I am. As a disabled woman of color, I never leave any piece of me behind I step fully in all rooms which in turn has fed my rhetoric and platform.

my mentor, and my best friends. They keep me grounded and are often my first audience.

Is this the type of work you have always wanted to do? How did this journey start?

. If you could do one thing you have never done, what would it be and why?

I want to keynote a graduation ceremony. Graduating anything feels like the greatest accomplishment. There’s magic in every ceremony