My career has taken me from military service to cybersecurity, government, nonprofit leadership, and doctoral research. Across each chapter, I have been driven by the same question:
How do we ensure technology creates opportunity rather than barriers?
The Story Behind the Work
Growing up as a first-generation Mexican-American, I rarely saw people who looked like me represented in technology leadership, policy discussions, or the industries shaping the future.
Later, while serving in the U.S. Navy and building a career across cybersecurity, government, aerospace, defense, and emerging technologies, I began to notice a pattern. Decisions about technology were often being made far away from the communities most affected by them.
The people building systems were not always the people living with their consequences.
Innovation is most powerful when it expands opportunity, strengthens communities, and keeps people at the center of the conversation.
A Few Things You Might Not Know
U.S. Navy Veteran
First-Generation Mexican-American
Founder of Amigas in Tech
Ph.D. Candidate in Artificial Intelligence
Creator of the JUSTAI Framework™
Speaker, Strategist & Advisor
The Journey So Far
U.S. Navy
Cybersecurity
Government
Nonprofit Leadership
AI Research
Advisory & Policy
Looking Ahead
The common thread throughout my career has never been a specific title, industry, or technology. It has always been people.
As artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies continue to reshape society, I believe we have an opportunity—and a responsibility—to build systems that are more inclusive, more accountable, and more human-centered than those that came before them.
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