• BA Modern Languages and Literatures, with a Minor in Sexuality focused on Human Rights (2001 UPRRP, DECEP and AIPR PR)

• MA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Curriculum Development Minor (2009 WGSS, UIPR)

• Stop Violence Against Women Campaign Coordinator MA Internship. (2007-09) and Gender Based Violence Prevention Committee Coordinator, Promoted Post Internship (2009-12) Amnistía Internacional, Puerto Rico

• Traditional Midwifery (Direct Entry Midwifery, DEM) with Escuela Dar a Luz (2009-12 PR), the former Hermandad de Parteras de P.R.’s midwifery school (currently Asociación de Parteras de PR), as well as with Midwest Maternal Child Institute (2014-15 WI).

• Train in herbology since 1978 with diversity of ancestral popular spaces, to organizations. Certified Herbal Medicine for Women (2024) and finishing our preparation as Women's Functional & Integrative Medicine Credentials with Aviva Romm (2026).

• Certified Birth Worker by Doula Caribe (2008 P.R.)

• Maternal and Child Community Health Educator, by Red Relahacupan (2010, Argentina)

• Perinatal and Breastfeeding Educator by Midwest Maternal Child Institute, MMCI (2013 WI).

• Certified in CPR and NRP (updated every 2 years)

• Reiki Energy Healer I with Boriken Reiki, Reiki Master Edwin Rodriguez-Rivera (2010, P.R.).

• Trained and certified in Community Trauma Support (TRACC Healer Movement member 2019)

• Trained in Somatic Sexual Education-Coaching (Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education ISSSE 2019)

• Art of Leadership for Women and Femmes of Color at Rockwood Leadership Institute (2023)

• Trained in Thanatology, currently finishing my Thanatology Certification with Instituto Mexicano de Tanatología (2025).

• Youth development inclusion and diversity education and activities, community training, women's health specialist and Midwife Assistant at Peace Corps Morocco 2003-05

• Proud Satigüadora (Healer) and Yerbetera (a person that works with herbs) since the days grandma Doña Niña said so.

• Community Health Educator (since 2000, P.R.)

• End of Life Doula since early ages assisting my mom.

• Midwife Assistant for mentor Midwife Aicha (2003-05, Morocco)

• Full spectrum birth worker (Since 2008, P.R.)

• Ob/Gyne and midwife assistant. Ob/Gyne Dr Velez (2009-10, P.R.)

• Student to apprentice midwife with local midwives through my studies (2009-13, P.R.)

• Popular Health Clinics Program Coordinator and Facilitation, Mexico Solidarity Network, Chicago (2013-14)

• Prenatal and Women's Health Popular Clinics with Universidad Popular, Chicago (2014-16)

• Direct-entry midwife (DEM)/2nd midwife in IL and WI with diverse midwives and projects (2013-17)

• All pregnancy outcomes and experiences companion: reproductive loss, birth and postpartum, adoption and fertility/conception loss support, menopause and gender doula (2011 to present in the same locations)

• Co-creation of Chicago Birth Workers of Color (ChiBiWoCo) in 2015, aiming to bring collective support to communities of color in Chicagoland with a fierce group of BIPOC birth workers.

• Member of RSMLAC since 2007 (Red de Salud Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe).

• Directing comprehensive reproductive and abortion health clinic services at North Shore Health Center (FemHealthUSA/carafem 2018-2023).

• Directing Operations at Chicago Women’s Health Center clinical programs that include Gender Affirming Therapy, Alternative Insemination, and Gyne care. (2023-24)

• Providing Gyne Clinical Health Services as a specialist and health worker (11 years in Chicago Women’s Health Center), and natural gyne care through my private practice.

• Providing Alternative Insemination (AI) care and Fertility Awareness/TTC education and consultations as an AI specialist and health worker (2015-23 Chicago Women’s Health Center), and at home inseminations in my private practice home-based, or Skokie location.

• Bringing harm-reduction, body-positive, queer-inclusive, and gender-expansive Sex Ed at Latinx communities (Spanish), at refugees’ communities around Chicago (Spanish and French) with the Outreach and Education Program (11 years in Chicago Women’s Health Center). Also, Training All Pregnancy Experiences and Outcomes Community Companions.

Trying to consciously slower my pace while immersing back into our communities....

• Private practice with my LLC at Evanston. Somatic bodywork specialist (level 1) and energy healing (Reiki), focused on sexual traumas experiences around their pregnancy outcomes. Focus on Perinatal Loss support.

• Providing individual lactation support and prenatal classes, consults, and education at my private practice and in community settings.

• Integrating our extensive ancestral and trained herbal and wellness education to our care, while finishing our preparation as Herbal Medicine for Women and Women's Functional & Integrative Medicine Credentials with Aviva Romm.

• Personalized sacred loss/grief midwifery care at home for those needing support experiencing loss at perinatal, fertility, or abortion.

• Women’s Health, FamilyPlanning, and Maternal-Child Health Specialist at the Ob/Gyne Midwives program, School Based Health Centers, refugees and asylum seekers shelters, and low income, uninsured and underserved communities utilizing a community health worker model at Alivio Medical Center in South Chicago.

• Coordinating care and education initiatives at our Cabaña Montuna for our communities any time we are home in Puerto Rico, and now soon our Casa Montuna in Illinois..