is a Latina/Bilingual Psychoanalyst who is a first born American to Central American immigrants. She is the former Co-Director of the institute at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis where she is the first Latina to hold a leadership position at the institute. Prior to that, she was the Director of the One Year Program in Psychoanalysis and the Sociopolitical World. As founder and co-chair of CORE (Committee on Race and Ethnicity), her leadership was instrumental in institutional change which was informed by racial justice. She served on the Board of Division 39- Section 9 Psychoanalysis and Social Responsibility as one of the Co-Editors of the section's newsletter, The Psychoanalytic Activist and as a Soliciting Editor for ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action. She is the Co-Founder of Psychoanalytic Coalition of Social Justice (formerly Inter-Institute Task Force) which was an institutional initiative collaboration of over a dozen institutes in New York City to consider how to dismantle white supremacy and genuinely address racism in analytic training. She is Faculty, Supervisor and Training Analyst at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, NIP (National Institute for the Psychotherapies) and The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center in New York City and at PINC in San Francisco. She currently facilitates a clinical supervision group for clinicians of color. Her leadership and activity in various projects focused on social justice issues nationwide and has contributed to the field in written work and has presented at conferences on community psychoanalysis and immigration. Since 2018, in response to the immigration crisis, she provides immigration evaluations, more recently to those waiting to be deported at ICE detention centers in the New York area. She is a member of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and is a volunteer evaluator for Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights (WCCHR) in New York City. Her primary interests center at the intersections of sociopolitical issues, including immigration, race, Latinidad, acculturation/assimilation coupled with interdisciplinary ideas that augment analytic practice.