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Professional Experience (Administration and Education)

White Snake Projects (WSP): Community Director (2022-present)

  • Develops and leads community engagement, partnerships, and programs connected to activist themes in WSP’s programming across Greater Boston.

  • Partners so far have included the Boston Public Library, 826 Boston, Boston Children’s Chorus, Boston Music Project, Boston Bhangra, Area 51 Majorette Team, Hibernian Hall, The Record Co., ZUMIX, Transformative Culture Project, Hyde Square Task Force, Origination, and more.

Eureka Ensemble: Executive Director (2020-2022); Librarian/Artistic Adviser (2018-2020)

  • Organized and delivered local programs to create social change through classical music. Issues addressed include immigration, climate change, voting rights, and homelessness. 

  • Established and taught Desea Soñar program with La Colaborativa, which empowers Latine youth ages 8 to 14 in Chelsea through songwriting, instruments, and performance. Developed weekly lesson plans and directed three teaching assistants. The program grew from 9 students in fall 2018 to 20 students and a waitlist of 100+ kids in spring 2022.

  • Created and expanded Rising Tides program, which engages youth ages 8 to 20 to learn about climate science and express what they learned through individual and group songwriting. 40+ youth have been involved since March 2021 through workshops at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, La Colaborativa, St. James’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge, and with students from various area colleges.

  • Led a team of 9 people in design and execution of programming.

Boston Arts Academy: Teacher (2014-2020)

  • Taught at Boston’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts.

  • Developed new curricula to emphasize diversity/inclusion and student voice within the music department.

  • Courses taught: Senior Music History and Ethnomusicology (developed curriculum), Junior Music History Seminar (co-developed curriculum), Music Theory 1, Creative Writing (coordinator; co-developed curriculum); Intersession programs taught: Film scoring (2016), A Capella (2017), Rock Band (2018), Beatmaking (2019)

North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC): Teacher (2022-present)

  • Taught a weekly after-school songwriting class for students in 7th-12th grade at Boston Latin Academy.

Miscellaneous

Awards and Recognitions (in reverse chronological order)

  • Selected in the Red Cedar Chamber Music Call for Scores for Cultural Prospects (2024)

  • Composer-in-Residence for the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, Victory Players Sí Se Puede program (2022-23)

  • Recognized in Ana Francisca Vega’s book Corazón de Mexicanos Como Yo, featuring 50 Mexican Americans who have broken boundaries (2021)

  • Asia/America Music Institute International Composition Competition, 2nd place (2020)

  • El Mundo Boston’s Latino 30 Under 30 (2019)

  • RED NOTE Music Festival, Choral Composition Competition winner (2017)

  • Davidson Travelling Fellowship, Harvard University Music Department (2013)

  • Timothy Faron Prize in Music, Adams House, Harvard University (2013)

  • John Green Fellowship, Harvard University Music Department (2012)

Commissions

Guilford County Schools (North Carolina)

  • Northwest Guilford Middle and High School Orchestras: 6-movement work in progress to be premiered spring 2025

  • Northern Guilford MS Orchestra: “Letters from the War,” premiered spring 2011 (Jesse Suggs, conducting)

  • Southwest Guilford HS Concert Band: "Setting Out" (premiered 2007, Kiyoshi Carter conducting) and the wind ensemble version of "Erin" (premiered 2009, Kenny Butler conducting)

Greensboro Concert Band (Greensboro, NC): “Sailboats in Melaka,” premiered Dec 2023

Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, Victory Players Sí Se Puede program (Holyoke, MA): “Coyolxauhqui,” premiered June 2023

Juan Saldivar (University of Kentucky; Lexington, KY) and Alex López Velarde (Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional; Mexico City, Mexico): “Regateando,” premiered July 2023

Eureka Ensemble (Cambridge, MA)

  • Lead translator for El Mesías, a Spanish-language translation of Handel’s Messiah, prepared for Eureka Ensemble (2019/22)

  • “Peces en el Río,” arranged for the Boston Children’s Chorus and Eureka (2021)

  • “Radiance of the Day,” in collaboration with Ginger Lazarus (2020)

  • “Voces” and “Voz de Chelsea,” commissioned by Eureka Ensemble; written using melodic ideas generated by youth in Chelsea (2018-19)

Boston Arts Academy (BAA) (Boston, MA)

  • BAA Lyric Choir: “Las Posadas” (premiered winter 2018, Molly Jo Rivelli conducting)

  • BAA Big Band: "Seikilos" (premiered spring 2015, Jason Juliano conducting)

  • BAA Film Festival: scores for 2015 short films "Some of His Things" (dir. Dan Sullivan) and "Unbalanced" (dir. Jeyrie Rodriguez)

Ensembles and groups at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

  • Mozart Society Orchestra: "Equinox" (premiered spring 2016, Sam Wu and Sean Rodan conducting)

  • Harvard University Wind Ensemble (Mark Olson conducting): “Light-Space Modulator,” commissioned as part of the “Afternoon at the Sackler” collaborative project (premiered fall 2011); "Miles Ahead,” commissioned as part of the "Miles Ahead: A Tribute to Miles Davis" collaborative project (premiered spring 2012)

  • Harvard Group for New Music: "They came first..." (premiered spring 2011), written for the Talea Ensemble (New York, NY)

  • Brattle Street Chamber Players: "Shaheed" (premiered fall 2011)

Greensboro Youth Chorus (Greensboro, NC)

  • “a leaf falls on loneliness” (premiered 2009, Ann Doyle conducting)

  • “Erin” (premiered 2008, Ann Doyle conducting), commissioned for GYC’s 20th anniversary

21x20 Media, Inc. (based in Pennsylvania)

  • Music for the August 2014 ("Once upon a time") and July 2015 ("Revelry") editions of the Rhythms and Writing contest on Writing.Com

  • music for the Happy Travels by Jack app (2014)

Programs and Festivals

  • Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, Victory Players Sí Se Puede program (2022-23); Holyoke, MA

  • ”Portraits and Rememberance,” part of the 5th edition of Rossi Fest (2022); Belgrade, Serbia

  • Harvard Summer Composition Institute (2014); Cambridge, MA

  • highSCORE Festival (2013); Pavia, Italy

  • European American Musical Alliance (2012); Paris, France

  • Outside-the-Box composer-musician collaboration (2010); Cambridge, MA

Community Work and Awards

Expand the Repertoire project: Working to expand the repertoire in orchestras in Boston and the US, with the goal of a future more inclusive of women composers/composers of color (2017-2019)

  • Wrote and delivered a letter to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) signed by 70 area musicians and professors inviting them to dialogue about inclusion in their programming. (read more here)

  • Led a small team of musicians and professors to explore pathways to increased diversity in the BSO’s programming.

  • Invited to speak at the 2018 League of American Orchestras National Conference in Chicago about the issue, on a panel with representatives from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, and the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra

  • Invited to speak at the 2019 League of American Orchestras National Conference in Nashville as part of Eureka Ensemble’s efforts to promote inclusive programming

  • Advised programming for Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra’s 2020-21 season, which featured a fully gender equitable repertoire for the first time in its history.

Jameson Singers: Board Member (2020-present), Tenor (2018-present) 

  • Advocate for better representation in choir’s programming and share best organizational practices at monthly board meetings.

Boston Hope Music (2020-2022)

  • Collaborated with a team of Boston-area musicians to provide music and healing for those at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Projects included curating and presenting music for patients at Boston Hope field hospital, free virtual music lessons for healthcare workers, and performances at mass vaccination sites.

Scouts BSA, Troop/Crew 56 (2009-present): Committee Chair (2016-2019), Eagle Adviser (2020-present)

  • Support a co-ed scout unit in youth leadership development, outdoor skills, and rank advancement at weekly meetings. 

  • Organized adult volunteers as committee chair to ensure safe and effective delivery of youth programming.

  • 2012 Boston Minuteman Council Youth Venturing Award

Education and Skills

Harvard College (2013): Major in Music, minor in Government, language citation in Arabic (Modern Standard)

Native fluency in English (USA) and Spanish (Mexico); limited working proficiency in Portuguese (Brazil) and French (France)