• Content Creation & Community Engagement: Curate and produce educational posts, reels, and Instagram Live sessions on native plants, remedies, and holistic self-care, engaging a growing audience of 15K+ followers.
  
  
• Workshops & Gatherings: Organized over 100 in-person and virtual workshops, collectively serving 2,000+ participants. Topics range from seasonal herb walks and tea-making to land stewardship.
  
  
• Visual Storytelling: Document community events, plant profiles, and personal reflections through compelling photography and narratives.
  
  
• Collaboration & Partnerships: Coordinates with local farms, environmental nonprofits, and community leaders to promote reciprocal relationships with nature and culturally respectful approaches to healing.
  
  
• Advocacy & Outreach: Highlight Indigenous heritage, emphasizing mesoamerican traditions. Champions climate resilience, cultural preservation, and community wellbeing.

SELECT HIGHLIGHTS 

• Fire Relief Initiative: Hosted donation-based clinic in February 2025, offering herbal remedies and resources to community members affected by the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
  
  
• Collaborative Photo Essays: Published striking images of traditional herbalists and healers, amplifying their voices and preserving ancestral knowledge.
  
  
• Guest Guided Native Plant Walk at The Getty: Invited to lead a Plant Identification Walk at The Getty Museum in 2024 as part of the Indigenous Peoples Day.
  
  
• Engaging Outreach: Cultivated an active and growing online and in-person audience of 15K+ followers, collectively serving 2,000+ participants through in-person events.
  

EDUCATION & TRAINING

• Clinical Herbalist Certification, Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine (In Progress)
  
  
• Herbal Apprenticeship focusing on Traditional Plant Knowledge (2022)
  
  
• Photography & Imaging, Art Center College of Design (2021)
  
  
• Associate in Arts, Pasadena City College (2018)
  

• California Naturalist Program & Field Biology Courses (2017)