At age 14 I joined a technical high school program related to construction. At age 16 I joined an Architecture Office as a drafter and going to Architecture School seemed like the right choice at the time, though I did get tempted by Psychology. Once in Architecture School, I became impressed by the potential of Architects as change agents.

My university provided me with a dual program - Architect and Urban Planner. I interned for two years at the Urban Design Department and became very passionate about the many layers that shape the urban environment.

At age 14 I moved to the big city for the technical high school away from my parents so I could have access to better education and a better chance to get into a good university program.

At age 22 after graduating from University I left for California to spend six months and never left. Americans changed the way I saw the design process.

At age 33 I spent six months traveling through India and Nepal. While there I spent six weeks in Ahmedabad as a guest designer at Abhikram. Nimish Patel changed the way I saw sustainability.

A year later I spent six months in Sao Paulo as an Architecture for Humanity Design Fellow assisting a non-profit with their favela project. The client Neide Santos changed the way I saw the power of community.

I am here to make a difference. Be it in small ways like going to the streets for protests, promoting sustainability on an individual level or at work, and, perhaps, in a bigger way, changing my career around to do what I believe will bring the most impact to the climate justice movement - infuse those in the movement with wellbeing.

Even though I didn’t end up doing Psychology at University, I’ve explored the psychology of emotions and behavioral patterns by studying Buddhist Psychology and Philosophy.

In the last twenty years, I have accumulated hundreds of hours of workshops in this area, including topics such as destructive emotions, mindfulness-based stress reduction, conflict resolution, compassion, and altruism in daily life.

I’ve also accumulated over two hundred days of retreats combined. My daily meditation practice is a continuing ally to how I show up in the world.

In 2020 I enrolled in the NLP Marin school for more self-discovery. In a few months, the techniques learned and experienced there revealed themselves as life-changing.

Catalyzed by my change agent drive, I made the resolve to continue the program for the purpose of becoming a Transformational NLP practitioner. I successfully wrapped up three years of training by participating as a Teaching Assistant. Carl Buchheit continues to change the way I see the mind’s potential for healing, change, and adaptability.

In 2022 I invested my time in a self-development community led by Brian C. Johnson. I’d followed his work for almost a decade and now witnessed the birth of his platform to train heroes, properly named Heroic.us.

I completed the Heroic Coach Certification and continue to engage in this community through a Lifetime Coach Membership. This is how I choose to show up for Brian’s aspiration which is to help create a world in which 51% of the world’s population is flourishing by the year 2051. Brian C. Johnson continues to change the way I see the power of consistency and community.

Self-transformation does not come from knowledge alone. It requires embodiment through the release of stuck energy, a.k.a. trauma.

I continue to experiment with the Mind-Body balancing act by studying and applying various Nervous System Regulation techniques taught by Irene Lyon - a nervous system specialist and somatic neuroplasticity expert. Irene Lyon changed the way I saw the Mind-Body connection.