Teaching & Coaching -
Teaching & Coaching -
Teaching & Coaching Experience
Santa Fe High and Mandela International Magnet , Santa Fe, NM
Digital Learning Coach (2025-Present)
Uplift Williams Preparatory, Dallas, TX
Digital Media (2018-22)
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Graphic Design Dual Credit with Dallas College (2019-22)
Adv. Journalism – Yearbook I (2016-18)
Art I (2016-18)
Art II (2016-17)
Art III – Digital Media (2016-17)
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Exploration of Humanities (Spring 2016)
Survey of Western Art—Renaissance to Modern (Fall 2015)
Survey of Western Art—Art of the Italian Renaissance (Summer 2015)
Survey of Western Art—Ancient to Medieval (Spring 2015)
Benbrook Elementary School, Houston, TX
English/Spanish Language Arts (Writing) (2011-12)
R.C. Burleson Elementary School, Dallas, TX
Bilingual/Dual Language Math (2009-11)
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Book Arts (Summer 2008)
Writing from Life: Poetry and Personal Narrative (Summer 2008)
Portfolio Development (Summer 2006)
College Writing (Spring 2006)
Practical Hours
2024-2027 Accredited Financial Counselor AFC®️ Candidate
2024 21 Hours Financial/Life coaching
2024 Principles of Coaching Course
2024 Coaching Relationship Course
2024 Coaching in Works Course
Selected Workshops
2024 Emeritus Alumni Reading, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2024 Gender Expansive Parenting, Family Equality, Zoom Webinar
2022 Guest of Honor at the Family Equality LA Impact Gala, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Literary Translation and Creativity, First Unitarian Church of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2014 Café Latino, ALTA (American Literary Translators Association), Milwaukee, WI
2006 The Importance of Higher Education, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2005 Freshman Writing Workshop, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI
Selected Conference Presentations
2014 Bilingual Writing or Self Translation, AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA,
Selected Community Involvement
2020-present Independent Podcast Creator, Adult Papers, et al.
2021-2022 Host and Curator of Basement Studio Film Club
2014-2015 Fiction Editor, Reunion-The Dallas Review at the University of Texas at Dallas
2014 Art Editor, The Boiler-A Journal of New Literature
2014 Donations Coordinator, Better World Book Drive, Sigma Lambda Gamma DFW
2010 Group Facilitator, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2010 Studio Teacher, Oak Cliff Art Crawl, Dallas, TX
2010 Volunteer, The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2006 Tutor at Milwaukee Education Center, Milwaukee, WI
Fun Fact:
I used to give Tarot readings and have used the Fool’s Journey of the Major Arcana as a teaching tool (and still can upon request)
I’ve been intentionally designing my life for over two decades as a way to escape poverty and generational trauma.
My journey began as a child born to teen parents—both first generation Texans from the Deep South and Cuba.
“You can do anything you put your mind to,” was a phrase my Momma often repeated. Turns out that concept is basically the collapse of the wave function in quantum physics (before observation, or action, all possibilities exist as a potential, but/and to get a particle to assume a state it has to be acted on or observed.) I.e. nothing can happen if you do nothing but something will happen if you do. Another way to say it might be wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which fills up first. That’s how my Daddy would have said it.
I didn’t learn about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle until later — you can’t know where you are and where you’re going at the same time.
Translated: Get Your Ass in Gear.
Fast forward thirty-something-years and I’m starting to see how these patterns of thought, belief, action, habits, and ways of being have shaped and molded my life for better and for worse. So I compiled as many of those ideas as I could into my two books: Clean House and Quantum Transformation.
To my surprise, the concepts that seemed to accelerate my growth were around worth, value, exchange, material possessions, money, and the economy. If you know anything about me then you know that this discovery warranted a deep-dive into concepts like debt, (David Graeber literally wrote the book on it,) and the psychology of money.
*Not sponsored, just eager to share the wealth.
Then my dad unexpectedly died, and his death made me braver and more determined to rewrite the script of my life.
My dad would still be here if he had written his own script, and my child would still have their Abo to play Minecraft with.
As I move through my own grief, I continue to face hard truths—namely—that success and accolades don’t equal happiness and fulfillment. And neither does money.
If you want to know what I mean, my books are a cost-efficient, low-investment way to get a primer on the concepts and practices I’ve used to design a fulfilling life I desire and get my child much closer to the starting line.
Or if you want to explore other ways I might be of service to you on your quest to define and design a life worth living, reach out.
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My Family:
Artemis
One Tenacious Tween
Apollo
Why the Orphic Egg?
Orpheus was a musician and poet who descended into the Underworld and returned.
The Orphic Egg is a non-binary cosmological symbol associated with the creation of the universe and an allegory of rebirth and renewal.
The purpose of my services as a Coach and Educator, and the motivation behind much of my work as an Artist, is to embrace transformation, rebirth, and renewal.