About+Me

Welcome.

I was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic and moved to New York City in 2000. After a week in NYC, my mother enrolled my brother and I at The Renaissance Charter School, and vaguely explained how to take public transportation to school the next day. Lack of details in her directions resulted in my getting lost walking from the 74 Street station to school. I like to attribute that unfortunate incident to the 7 train skipping 82nd street and a horrible blizzard that turned everything white. In any case, I somehow managed to get to school (late) that day and to graduate 2.5 years later.

After Renaissance, I studied Politics, Latin American Studies and Arabic at Brandeis University, A.K.A "the school of students with too many majors". Junior year of college I spent in Lebanon stuying, traveling, witnessing history in the making when the whole government resigned, and learning Lebanese cooking with a number of adopted aunts. A year later, I graduated and I got a job with a union, organizing food service workers for fair labor contracts. I am proud to say that all happened before Barack Obama made community organizing popular. I then returned to my Alma Mater, Renaissance, to work as its internship coordinator. This is a program I helped design when I was still a student there.

Special note: Teachers do not live in an imaginary 4th floor at TRCS, this is because we all happen to have a life outside the school. I personally like to use that time cooking, knitting, reading and sharing with my family.