Extracurricular
The following are activities where I have developed across the years; I have been able to find personal growth & creative outlets through them, as well as getting to know and support interesting people and concepts.
Design Pro Bono
+ Supporting Food Entrepreneur businesses with brand scheme and assets for their Market Place launch, On call consulting for brand in order to formalize and grow their businesses. Focused on providing resources to women from communities of color and immigrant communities.
+ Joined The Professional Association for Design as a committee member to build a more inclusive Product Design landscape in tech by creating opportunities for minorities to showcase and learn about Design through a series of workshops and talks.
Alumni Admissions Council
+ Interviewer for Undergrad Admissions, reports are added to the students' application files and are reviewed by admission staff to make holistic admission decisions that go beyond SAT scores.
Adobe Pro Bono Residency
+ Secured 10k USD Grant for a small school in MA
+ Mapped the ideal-state virtual experience for Remote child education and parental support
+ Developed techstack and Tactics for communicating with parents through these tools to ensure successful engagement.
+ Professional Mentor for female and non-binary students between the age of 15-22 years old in areas of tech , design and engineering. BUILT BY GIRLS prepares the next generation of female and non-binary leaders to step boldly into careers powered by technology.
+ Weekly 1:1 Tech Career Mentor, working to empower mentees and clarify goals, as well as finding sustained opportunities in technology (Product / Design / Engineering) by making sure they have a network and platform to showcase their talent.
Previous extras
Segal Student President
Developed strategies, events and networks to create meaningful connections between human-centered design students at the Segal Design Institute of Northwestern University and the leading design industry.
Laguna Gloria Art teacher
Teacher's assistant for Laguna Gloria art day camp. This camp is based in Austin, TX, and it aims to introduce young children to art. As an assistant I helped kids aged 5 to 7 and 9 to 11 with basic art techniques and pottery.
Interests
Summer 2015 International Children's Village
CISV
Children's International Summer Village is a Non Governmental Organization partnered with UNESCO that aims to educate and inspire action for a more just and peaceful world.
Children and Young Adults from all over the world gather in different programs to promote inter-cultural friendship, cooperation and understanding.
On the summer of 2015 I volunteered as a leader, I took a delegation of 4 mexican eleven year olds to a Village in Sheffield, England. We were able to make our fellow delegations aware about Mexico's richness and perils. The empathy created was incredible.
On the summer of 2017, I organized and managed an Interchange with Thailand, where my delegation of 7 mexican twelve year olds received 7 thai children for three weeks and viceversa. We worked on showing them and appreciating our country, as well as finding similarities between our countries and looking to work together for a more tolerant relation.
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BALLET
I've taken ballet classes since I was 6 years old. Encouraged by my parents and not always easy, I found that this discipline was thoroughly enriching and creatively stimulating. The music, as well as the coordination and strength proved to have physical, concentration and agility benefits.
Even though I never intended or could pursue it professionally, I fully enjoy practicing it today. My last official examination was the Royal Academy of Dance Intermediate grade.
There are similarities between Ballet and Engineering, one of them is precision. Tarik Abdel-Gawad's "Ballet meets Robotics" synchronized dancer's movements with a robotic arm that filmed them seamlessly.
Watercolor and pen technique
ART
I am very interested in art, from exhibitions to symbolism and art history, I like both creating and observing.
On 2012, I attended the School of Visual Arts summer program "Fine arts and Design" in New York; we worked from charcoal to Illustrator.
From then on I've become a keen drawer, in both paper and digital formats.
I am interested as well, in performance pieces that involve technology. In many cases, I feel like art enhances technology and technology makes pieces relevant on this modern age.