Storyteller. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Based in New York City.
About me: Stories are my first love language.
Growing up in Puerto Rico in the 90’s, I was often in front of my father’s analog cameras and camcorders. His favorite hobby was to follow his kids around, asking us to tell him stories. At age ten, he gave me my first pocket camera—and I never stopped documenting. I studied Media and Audiovisual Communications in college, focusing on analog photography. Developing photographs in the dark room made me rise in deeper love with the human expression, which eventually led me to study acting. I studied theater and movement arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina before planting roots in New York City, where I’ve been working in both theater and film since 2015.
In 2017, Hurricane María made direct landfall in Puerto Rico and I coped with the prolonged devastation by documenting my grandfather a year into the aftermath. That story became my first film, a short documentary which premiered in 2020. Since then, I’ve been making my own work—storytelling through acting, directing and/or filmmaking. My work lives at the intersection of these interlaced crafts—centering stories that celebrate the complexity of identity, emotion and human relations.