Fashion Designer - Educator - Founder of Repair Café El Barrio

I work at the intersection of fashion, repair, education, and community, creating spaces where making, care, and collective knowledge come together.

My practice is rooted in Fine Arts. I was trained across disciplines — from sculpting marble to painting, drawing, and working with materials by hand — learning to observe, shape, and listen to matter slowly. That foundation taught me to value process, labor, and the intelligence of materials long before I had language for it.

Fashion entered my life later, not as an industry, but as a refuge. Working with garments, textiles, and the body became a form of healing — a way to stay close to making while navigating change, displacement, and reinvention. What drew me to fashion was not speed or production, but care, repair, and the intimacy of working with what already exists.

Repair Café El Barrio grew from that same place. What began as a personal need evolved into a collective one: a space where repair became a shared practice, and where making, teaching, and community could coexist. Today, my work continues to move between art, fashion, education, and community-based projects, using repair as both method and language — a way of learning, healing, and imagining futures together.