She earned an M.S. in Print Journalism from Boston University, graduated from the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard University, and is a Fulbright Scholar (Spain). She was a nationally-syndicated columnist with The Progressive magazine’s Media Project for fifteen years. Her work has appeared in The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader , Once Upon a Cuento , and Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism . In 2013, she co-edited Confluencia in the Valley, a prose and poetry anthology. Most recently, she volunteers as Communications Director for TEDxFulbright.