SOCIAL
PRACTICE
My social practice spans nearly a decade of collaborative work with immigrant, tenant, and working-class communities, partnering with hundreds of grassroots organizations, coalitions, and cultural workers across California and beyond. Rooted in care, cultural sensitivity, and shared authorship, my practice centers multilingual and multicultural collaboration—working fluently across Spanish, Chinese, and English—to build visual strategies, collective storytelling projects, and public-facing artworks that support organizing, political education, and power-building.
I have co-led trainings, led large-scale art builds, and coached direct action visual strategy—including banner drops, sign and clothing design, die-ins, screenprinting, and visual coordination—developing campaign visuals alongside community members that have circulated widely through press coverage and public discourse for campaigns such as the Affordable California Campaign, Lower the Rent Campaign, Safety Net for All Campaign, and Health for All Campaign, in California. My practice is deeply collaborative and includes partnerships with artists, organizations, and cultural organizers such as the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, artist and organizer David Solnit, Greenpeace and BlackOUT Collective artists among others. Increasingly, my work extends into collaboration with photographers, videographers, and documentarians to activate social practice through expanded visual and narrative forms, including an upcoming tenant photo book project, and most recently activating artist Patrisse Cullors’ documentary, “Close to Home, “which explores how art, documentation, and movement-building can intersect to shape collective memory. I have been trained with the Highlander Center, Greenpeace Arts Program, as well as other cultural organizing programs.
AFFORDABLE
CALIFORNIA
CAMPAIGN
The Affordable California Campaign united tenant organizations, labor unions, faith groups, and community organizations around a shared vision for housing justice. I developed campaign branding and visuals, photography, creative direction, digital storytelling, and public-facing visuals that supported direct actions that translated complex housing policy into accessible multilingual narratives. Working alongside organizers and tenants, I helped build a visual language that strengthened statewide organizing and elevated the voices of communities most impacted by California's housing crisis.
The left bottom image is an photograph taken by me of an action that was co-directed with David Soling where we organized a group of California tenants to occupy the Sacramento Capitol building and translate tenant demands and tenant portraits I took into a guerrilla projection onto the Capitol building.
Demonstrators rally at the Capitol to support Affordable Rent Act
Renters Rally In Sacramento In Support of Statewide Rent Control Bill (guerrilla projection action in collaboration with David Solnit)
Legislators vote on bill to tighten CA rent cap as supporters flood Capitol
SAFETY NET
FOR ALL
The Safety Net for All Campaign fought to expand unemployment insurance to excluded workers, regardless of immigration status through AB 2847 (E. Garcia) . My role focused on creative strategy, photography, graphic and direct action design, and multilingual communications that supported statewide organizing and legislative advocacy. Through collaborative storytelling and visual communications, I helped elevate the experiences of immigrant workers while making complex policy accessible to broader public audiences. All graphics, fliers, and visuals were designed by me.
ARTS AND CULTURAL
ORGANIZING
AND TRAININGS
For nearly a decade, I have facilitated arts organizing trainings, community art builds, mutual aid projects, and national workshops with grassroots organizations, coalitions, universities, and cultural institutions. My practice centers creative resistance, visual strategy, campaign storytelling, and participatory art-making, equipping organizers and community members with creative tools through collaborative, train-the-trainer models.
I have also been invited to speak at national conferences, universities, and movement gatherings on cultural organizing, arts organizing, visual strategy, and the role of artists in social movements. These presentations bring together lessons from collaborative campaigns and community-based practice, exploring how art can strengthen organizing, political education, and collective power.
LOWER THE RENT
The Lower the Rent Campaign mobilized renters across California in support of the Affordable Rent Act (AB 1157), advocating to strengthen statewide rent protections. I developed the campaign's visual identity, creative direction, and narrative strategy, producing photography, digital media, and organizing materials that translated legislative advocacy into accessible public messaging. Through collaborative storytelling and movement-centered design, the campaign helped amplify tenant voices and build statewide support for stronger renter protections.
My cultural strategy practice builds partnerships between artists, cultural institutions, and social movements. Working across public programs, exhibitions, documentaries, and community storytelling initiatives, I design engagement strategies that connect creative work with organizing, political education, and civic participation. This includes partnering with artist and activist Patrisse Cullors and the Close to Home team to convene grassroots organizations, elected officials, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and statewide housing justice coalitions, leveraging cross-sector partnerships to bring the documentary into conversation with organizers, advocates, and public audiences. Rather than treating art as separate from movement-building, I see culture as a vital site for relationship-building, collective imagination, and social change.
CULTURAL STRATEGY
AND PARTERSHIPS
HEALTH FOR ALL
For nearly a decade, the Health for All Campaign has organized to expand healthcare access regardless of immigration status. My role has included developing campaign visuals, photography, and public storytelling while recruiting, training, and supporting a multiracial, multilingual cohort of community storytellers. Working alongside directly impacted communities, I helped cultivate stories that shaped public narratives across campaign media and news coverage, connecting lived experience with statewide advocacy and collective action.