Our Story

I grew up bilingual and highly value code-switching and translating my thoughts to others. From an early age, I enjoyed translating and interpreting information between English and Spanish, playing with how context could easily change which words to use and what emphasis there was in a conversation. I am passionate about helping others choose the exact language to convey their message!

I have always been interested in art, communication, and language. As an educator/instructional coach, I have focused much of my career on tailoring the materials I created and curating the learnings I designed for my students' needs and interests. I have also done much translation work for my designs and lessons and those of others on my teams, both English and Spanish.

I think of and use UX Design, Management, and Restorative Practices as languages. I can fluidly move between the different cultures, ways of thinking, practices and applications of these languages as well as Spanish and English.

In the winter of 2025, I decided to make a career pivot and formally began to learn UX Design and Project Management. Much of my work in education and learning uses many of the same ideas and principles as UX Design and PM. Not until I formally began to learn both areas did I find exactly how much I had already been doing both things in my daily work. In my learning, I solidified understandings I had gleaned over the years (the used comes first, always focus on ensuring awarenss of user need sand problems instead of on what I think might be the solution, iterate iterate and iterate…) I polished skills I already had and learned new ways of thinking and apporaches that would’ve made my teaching way better if I had known them before. In this work of self-reflection, I grew my focus on how people communicate.

This started as a way to publish my portfolio of new learnings. Since then, my ideas have expanded to include a few other areas, blogs, some materials I have created for Professional Development purposes, and they will likely continue to morph as I explore my areas of curiosity.