Former legislative aide to Delegate James W. Campbell, Baltimore City, District 42. Former legislative aide to U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland.
Born in Puerto Rico. Raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Goucher College, B.A. (social justice), cum laude; Eagleton Institute, Rutgers University, M.S. (public policy). Executive Director, Community Development Network of Maryland, 2013-20. Former Neighborhood Programs Director, Greater Homewood Community Corporation (led neighborhood congress, 1998). Founding Director, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance. Started Strategic Management Consulting, 2005. Co-Founder, Village Learning Place, 1997. President, Abell Improvement Association, 2005. Chair, Baltimore Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 2007-09. Member, Baltimore City Democratic State Central Committee, 2014-20. Co-Founder, Baltimore Women United (past co-chair), 2016. Emerge Maryland, 2019. Founding Chair, Fair Housing Action Center of Maryland. Former member, Board of Directors, Baltimore Community Mediation Center (past chair); Urban Children Foundation; Civic Works; Waverly Main Street. Dickens Warfield Award, BNI Maryland, 2017. Influential Marylander, Daily Record, 2019. Women to Watch, Baltimore Sun, 2020. Married; one child.
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