A graduate of UCSF’s Family Healthcare Nursing Program, she has provided medical care to underserved communities at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Berkeley Free Clinic, St. Anthony’s Free Clinic, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Planned Parenthood, and Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center. She has also completed a fellowship in farmworker health with the Migrant Clinicians Network and an internship with Partners In Health’s Institute for Health and Social Justice. She is lead author of “Mental Health of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants: A Review of the Literature” (Advances in Nursing Science, 2005), and contributor to OpenForum, the companion blog to Health and Human Rights: An International Journal. She currently co-moderates and contributes to the Global Health Delivery Project’s online global health nursing and midwifery community.