Angélica (she/her/ella) leads our work in developing visionary communication strategies across the Tishman Center’s initiatives, including campus engagement and events and external research and advocacy projects co-produced with partners in the environmental and climate justice movement.

Angélica brings over 15 years of experience as a strategic communications and public relations specialist to organizations, elected officials, and institutions, including Hispanics in Philanthropy, The New Mexico State Senate, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Washington Office on Latin America, among others. As a cross-cultural facilitator and popular educator, Angélica has directed semester-long study abroad and faculty-led programs in partnership with the University of La Habana, Cuba, primarily for Arcadia University and Brown University.

Over the last two decades, she has worked with frontline, grassroots, and community-based organizations and coalitions. Angélica has co-led several international delegations to movement-building spaces, including the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia, the alternative forum at COP16 in Cancun, the People’s Conference at Rio +20, and Standing Rock.

Angélica has a BA in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and an MPA from CUNY Baruch College, where she was a National Urban Fellow. Angélica resides in the unceded homelands of the Tewa people in O’Ga P’Ogeh Owingeh (Santa Fe), New Mexico— where she grows seeds and community on her ancestral lands.