About Me
My background
I was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and have lived in seven countries, eight cities. The eldest of three siblings, I grew up in a family rooted in care, creativity, and music. My father is a physician and devoted collector of Cuban and Latin music, and my mother is a nurse, preschool educator, and painter.
At sixteen, my family moved to Santiago, Chile, an experience that shaped my passion for international politics and music. I trained at the Leonardo da Vinci Artistic School before moving to Paris at nineteen to pursue studies at the Sorbonne Law School, Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), in International Relations, with a focus on International Law.
My professional journey has taken me to London, where I worked as a Program Coordinator at LADPP, an NGO serving neurodivergent Latin American communities, and to New York City with the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations. I later completed a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratization in Venice, Italy. My thesis, The Development of Artistic Talent as a Human Right, was informed by field research in Thessaloniki, Greece, where I lived for nearly eight years developing arts-based programs in refugee camps in Northern Greece, Italy and Ethiopia, as Project Director at
Musicians for Human Rights-Greece.
I currently live in San Francisco, USA, where I work as a Health Education Specialist at the De León Lab and with the Community Outreach Program at the Edward and Pearl Feinberg Memory and Aging Center in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). I completed the Atlantic Fellowship in Equity in Brain Health, a program of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), based at UCSF and Trinity College Dublin.
Organizer of the United Nations Global Forum on Migration and Development -Satellite Event San Francisco. November 2025
On behalf of the Government of Colombia, I was chose as the organizer of this important Forum, which brought together eleven panelist, distributed in three panels. Lawyers, Community leaders, doctors, musicians, and scholars explored migration’s impact on health, art, and sustainable development .
Look at the details and Agenda clicking at the flyer
Arts
I am a professional singer, dancer, percussionist, and I also play the Gaita Colombiana, an Indigenous flute from northern Colombia. My artistic practice spans diverse repertoires, including traditional Latin-American music as well as Arabic, Portuguese, and French music, among others.
I have also an extensive experience as a Community Music Leader, working with mothers and babies, children, teenagers , adults and now focusing my work on elders.
Brain Health
I am a Community Education Specialist at the Neurology Department, Memory and Aging Center, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). I support the coordination of educational and artistic programs across the city of San Francisco and lead educational and arts-based workshops in senior centers serving vulnerable communities. I am also an Atlantic Fellow in Equity in Brain Health through UCSF and Trinity College Dublin, and a Professor of Music and the Brain Course at the Global Brain Health Institute.