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 is the Co-Editor of The Psychoanalytic Activist, Co-Founder of the Psychoanalytic Coalition for Social Justice, and is on the Board of Division 39-Section IX "Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility." 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 where she is in private practice. She has been in leadership and active with various projects that focus on social justice nationwide, has contributed to the field in written work and is currently mentoring early career clinicians in BIPOC only supervision groups. In response to the immigration crisis, she provides immigration evaluations, more specifically 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. She also facilitates clinical supervision groups for clinicians of color.