OBJECTIVE

To merge my experience as a comics artist, designer, and educator to develop transformative visual storytelling projects.

EDUCATION

California College of the Arts, Class of 2020 - MFA in Comics

Otis College of Art + Design, Class of 2011 - BFA in Digital Media

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE - Digital Media Adjunct Professor / 2024 - Present

SANTA ANA COLLEGE - Digital Media Adjunct Professor / 2023 - Present, Santa Ana, CA

MURAL WORKFORCE ACADEMY - Teaching Artist / 2023 - 2024, Boyle Heights, CA

BOYLE HEIGHTS ARTS CONSERVATORY - Teaching Artist / 2023 - 2024, Boyle Heights, CA

VENICE ARTS - COMICS - Teaching Artist / 2023 / Venice Beach, CA

COMICS AS ESSAY WORKSHOP - Instructor / 2023 - Present, Cal Lutheran University - Thousand Oaks, CA

COMICS OF COLOR WORKSHOP - Instructor / 2022 - Present, Eagle Rock Center of the Arts - Eagle Rock, CA

QUEER REBELS ARTIST RESIDENCY - Artist in Residence & Mentor/ 2022 - San Francisco, CA

MONTH OF COMICS - Instructor/ 2022, Horchateria Rio Luna - Paramount, CA

COMICS & INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING - Instructor + Mentor / 2021 - 2022, STEM Academy Odyssey - Lakewood, CA

COMICS & INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING - Instructor + Mentor / 2019, The Young Vets, Somerset High School - Bellflower, CA

DIGITAL MEDIA & STORYTELLING - Instructor / 2017-2018, Youth Radio (YR MEDIA) - Oakland, CA

COMIC BOOK THEORY- Assistant Professor / 2018, Comic Book Theory / California College of the Arts - San Francisco, CA

ALL AGES COMICS/ZINE WORKSHOP - Instructor / 2016-2018, Salinas Comic Con - Steinbeck Center - Salinas, CA

DIGITAL MEDIA & STORYTELLING - Instructor + Project Manager / 2015-2016 / YMCA PG&E Youth Institute - Berkeley, CA

COMICS + 2D ANIMATION - Assistant Professor / 2008-2011 / Otis College of Art & Design - Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

WALO: A CENTRAL AMERICAN ODYSSEY - Chele Delgado Publications - 2022

“EVERY BODY IS DIFFERENT” - FROM CONCINAS TO LUCHA LIBRE RINGSIDES ANTHOLOGY - Mad Creek Books 2025

“SAVED” + “STRUGGLE” - TALES FROM LA VIDA A LATINX COMIC ANTHOLOGY - Mad Creek Books 2018

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

GUEST SPEAKER- 2023 - Whittier College - Whittier College Zine Festival / Whittier, CA

GUEST SPEAKER / FACILITATOR - 2023 - Otis College of the Arts - Art & Zine Festival / Los Angeles, CA

GUEST ARTIST - 2022 - ShortRun - Art & Zine Festival / Oakland, CA

GUEST SPEAKER - COMICS AS HEALING - 2022 - Oakland Creates Art & Zine Festival / Oakland, CA

DOCUMENTARIAN + INTERVIEWER + SPEAKER - 2022 - Arts.Co.Lab Pecha Kucha with Accion Latina / San Francisco, CA

DOCUMENTARIAN + INTERVIEWER - 2022 - Latinx Comics Arts Festival / Modesto, CA

FEATURED ARTIST - 2015-2020 East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Festival / Berkeley, CA

FEATURED ARTIST - 2020, Black Comic & Arts Festival / San Francisco, CA

FEATURED ARTIST - 2020, San Francisco Cyber Zine Festival / San Francisco, CA

FEATURED ARTIST - 2020, Exterminator City Comix & Zines Expo / Seattle, WA

GUEST SPEAKER - 2020, Latinx Comics Arts Festival: Creators in Conversation / Modesto, CA

GUEST SPEAKER - 2020, Twin Cities Zine Cyber Festival / Hennepin, MI

GUEST READER - 2020, LA Zine Festival, Digital Zine Readings / Los Angeles, CA

GUEST SPEAKER + FILMMAKER - 2018, Latino Comics Expo Film Festival Alamo Draft House / San Francisco, CA

FEATURED FILMMAKER + ORGANIZER - 2017, Latino Comics Expo Film Festiva / The Freida Cinema, Santa Fe, CA

GUEST SPEAKER - 2017, Cartoons Crossroads, Community Belonging in Comics / Columbus, OH

THE BAYLIES - 2018, ONLINE EXHIBITION

GUEST ARTIST + SPEAKER - 2016, Latino Comics Expo, Meet the Artists, The Mexican Museum / San Francisco, CA

CARTOONIST IN-RESIDENCE - 2016, The Cartoon Art Musuem / San Francisco, CA

EXHIBITIONS

ART IN THE PANEL - 2023 - Group Exhibition, Creative World Art Center / Arcadia, CA

LINE ATTACK! - 2021 - 2022 - Group Exhibition, The Hive Gallery / Los Angeles, CA

EMANATA COMICS EXHIBITION - 2019, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

TALES FROM LA VIDA: LATINX COMIC EXHIBIT - 2018 San Jose Public Library, San Jose, CA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Latinx Comics Arts Festival - Former Board Member, Documentarian / Modesto, CA

ABAW, Art Therapy Collective / Los Angeles, CA

Arts.Co.Lab, Documentarian / San Francisco, CA