I'm an illustrator with over 15 years of experience from Boston, Massachusetts, with residency in Mexico City, Mexico. I specialize in editorial illustration, with a focus on figurative drawing using brush and ink. I also do much of my work digitally. I have many years of experience in printmaking – silkscreen, linocut, letterpress. I have worked for many nonprofits including National Resources Defense Council, Oxfam Mexico, Pacific Environment, Insure Our Future, and Center for Biological Diversity, creating posters and digital illustration for social media. I've also illustrated a number of books, including book covers. Some of my clients have included Penguin Random House, and Mexico City Streets. I also love working on book design and I have designed interior book contents from academic reports to cookbooks. I want to listen carefully to a client to understand their needs and deliver the results they are looking for. Looking forward to getting to work! ---

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I'm an illustrator with over 15 years of experience from Boston, Massachusetts, with residency in Mexico City, Mexico. I specialize in editorial illustration, with a focus on figurative drawing using brush and ink. I also do much of my work digitally. I have many years of experience in printmaking – silkscreen, linocut, letterpress. I have worked for many nonprofits including National Resources Defense Council, Oxfam Mexico, Pacific Environment, Insure Our Future, and Center for Biological Diversity, creating posters and digital illustration for social media. I've also illustrated a number of books, including book covers. Some of my clients have included Penguin Random House, and Mexico City Streets. I also love working on book design and I have designed interior book contents from academic reports to cookbooks. I want to listen carefully to a client to understand their needs and deliver the results they are looking for. Looking forward to getting to work! ---

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I’m an illustrator with over 15 years of experience from Boston, Massachusetts, with residency in Mexico City, Mexico. I specialize in editorial illustration, with a focus on figurative drawing using brush and ink. I also do much of my work digitally. I have many years of experience in printmaking – silkscreen, linocut, letterpress.

I have worked for many nonprofits including National Resources Defense Council, Oxfam Mexico, Pacific Environment, Insure Our Future, and Center for Biological Diversity, creating posters and digital illustration for social media. I’ve also illustrated a number of books, including book covers. Some of my clients have included Penguin Random House, and Mexico City Streets. I also love working on book design and I have designed interior book contents from academic reports to cookbooks.

I want to listen carefully to a client to understand their needs and deliver the results they are looking for. Looking forward to getting to work!

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Language

Spanish; Castilian
Fluent
English
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance illustrator at City of Bridges Community Land Trust
May 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025
Create an illustration, with iterations, to be used by City of Bridges Community Land Trust to convey a community-led movement that fights displacement and protects Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Use classic woodblock-print look, using the limited palette of the organization.
Freelance illustrator and designer at Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing
December 4, 2024 - May 15, 2025
Part 1: Fully designed FCYO’s Strategic Plan long version (24 pages), Formatting for aesthetics and readability Part 2: Fully designed graphic of Strategic Framework (2 pages); Design elements should be synchronous between the two documents (colors, fonts, etc.) Part 3: Google Slides template(s) for a presentation deck, using the design elements from the Strategic Framework.
Freelance Illustrator at Sunrise Project, Inc.
January 4, 2024 - February 29, 2024
Develop the creative direction and assets of the Global Week of Action for Insure OurFuture campaign. Logo, illustration digital, Facebook banner, large scale banner printed.
Freelance illustrator and designer at Women's Ordination Conference
July 31, 2024 - September 24, 2024
Create poster designs featuring a Warhol-riffed Campbell soup can with text changed for the W.O.C. campaign. 70x100cm dimensions, with various color backgrounds (and two iterations of a repeating grid of cans. Uploading appropriate file types to a shared folder, work with various WOC members to make available the various iterations.
Freelance illustrator at Campus Reentry Project
January 6, 2024 - January 31, 2024
Create a series of digital /print illustrations that highlight the importance of higher education in the criminal justice system.
Freelance illustrator at Fundación Televisa, Empieza Temprano campaign
January 18, 2023 - March 15, 2023
Create a series of digital illustrations that focus on the importance of early intervention and parents’ roles in early childhood development.
Freelance illustrator at Center for Biological Diversity
March 1, 2022 - June 1, 2022
full-color poster
Freelance illustrator at Penguin Random House - Grupo Editorial, Mexico
September 1, 2017 - December 20, 2018
59 book illustrations including book cover illustration.

Education

Bachelor of Art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
September 1, 2003 - June 30, 2006

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Education
    paper FCYO Strategic Framework - Graphic Design
    Fully designed graphic of Strategic Framework (2 pages for digital use); Design elements should be synchronous (colors, fonts, etc.)
    uniE621 Campus Reentry Project - classroom learning
    These illustrations were made to bring light to the benefits of college courses taught in prisons.
    uniE621 Campus Reentry Project - tablet learning
    These illustrations were made to bring light to a college program for prison inmates.
    uniE621 Empieza Temprano - illustrations: Free Play
    A series of unpublished digital illustrations for the Televisa Foundation project, "Empieza Temprano" (Begin Early), which focuses on early education and intervention of good parenting skills.
    uniE621 Empieza Temprano - illustrations: Father and Son Puzzle
    A series of unpublished digital illustrations for the Televisa Foundation project, "Empieza Temprano" (Begin Early), which focuses on early education and intervention of good parenting skills.
    uniE621 Empieza Temprano - illustrations: Father and Child Emotions
    A series of unpublished digital illustrations for the Televisa Foundation project, "Empieza Temprano" (Begin Early), which focuses on early education and intervention of good parenting skills.
    uniE621 Empieza Temprano - illustrations: Father and Child Playtime
    A series of unpublished digital illustrations for the Televisa Foundation project, "Empieza Temprano" (Begin Early), which focuses on early education and intervention of good parenting skills.
    uniE621 Word of the Day digital illustration: March
    A series of six illustrations depicting the concept of "displacement" for Word of the Day as part of the When We Fight, We Win! Podcast. Each image shows the various steps that may occur toward homelessness, as well as the community organizing that is capable of creating community power and reverse such housing displacement.
    uniE621 Word of the Day digital illustration: Organize
    A series of six illustrations depicting the concept of "displacement" for Word of the Day as part of the When We Fight, We Win! Podcast. Each image shows the various steps that may occur toward homelessness, as well as the community organizing that is capable of creating community power and reverse such housing displacement.
    uniE621 Word of the Day digital illustration: Eviction
    A series of six illustrations depicting the concept of "displacement" for Word of the Day as part of the When We Fight, We Win! Podcast. Each image shows the various steps that may occur toward homelessness, as well as the community organizing that is capable of creating community power and reverse such housing displacement. illustrator
    paper Word of the Day digital illustrations

    A series of six illustrations depicting the concept of “displacement” for

    as part of the When We Fight, We Win! Podcast. Each image shows the various steps that may occur toward homelessness, as well as the community organizing that is capable of creating community power and reverse such housing displacement.

    uniE621 Book Illustrations La Roma Mexico City Streets guidebook
    A guidebook in both English and Spanish illustrated with over 55 iconic images of the historic Roma neighborhood in Mexico City. I rendered the illustrations using two spot colors, blended at different percentages to achieve a varied palette. I illustrated the cover, a bird's-eye view of the neighborhood. illustrator bookcover