El hilo conductor —The throughline

Before it was a service offering, this was a way of working — building bridges across language, geography, and cultural memory.

These two projects are where that practice started.

43 Voices

Curatorial Direction & Exhibition Narrative

A social justice exhibition connecting Milwaukee’s most segregated corridor to Ayotzinapa, Mexico — built to hold space for grief, memory, and solidarity across two communities that rarely get to speak to each other directly.

Curating this work meant more than hanging art: it meant building the narrative architecture that let a Milwaukee audience genuinely sit with a Mexican tragedy as their own concern, not a distant headline

Itotia Mexica Xi LLC.

Founder & Art Director

Founded and led a multidisciplinary Aztec dance and cultural arts organization in Chicago — defining its mission, visual identity, and branding from the ground up, and directing artistic production including choreography collaboration, set design, lighting, and staging.

Beyond the stage, the org extended into the community: developing youth arts programming with After School Matters and Little Village High School, and collaborating with professional stage crews at Thalia Hall to bring productions to live Chicago audiences.