I offer highly tailored, experiential, community-building writing workshop. These sessions introduce participants to foundational writing techniques that help them interact with language as a living material, much as a sculptor might work with stone or clay. I craft these workshops in accordance with the program needs of partner organizations while maintaining a liberatory framework that invites participants to consider the self in its embodied, networked, historical dimension, and to engage writing as a memory-activating process of reclamation. I’ve taught these workshops in a wide variety of settings, from elementary schools, to street sidewalks and as a college lecturer. I strive to make them fun, accessible and rich with learning.

This workshop presents college admission and scholarship essays as creative writing challenges. Situating these essays within the broader, creative nonfiction genre, I invite participants to engage writing as a genuine process of self-discovery. Critically assessing the storytelling demands of the college admissions and scholarship process at large, I ask participants to consider the stories often told about them and their communities, and how their identity might inform the kinds of stories and portrayals typically expected of them. Centering care, and introducing hands-on, creative writing exercises, the workshop is meant to empower students to tell the story they wish to and are ready to tell.

This workshop offers migrant parents a research-based, historical overview of U.S colleges. In addition to covering financial aid topics, including access for undocumented families, the workshop discusses a historical record of uneven access, challenges currently facing U.S colleges, and the opportunities still available to students pursuing higher-education. Born from a need I witnessed in my own family, this workshop is meant to empower parents with critical information that will help them advise their children through the college admissions process and during their higher-ed educational journey.