I am a Registered Nurse, multidisciplinary artist, university educator, and Arts in Medicine practitioner. My professional and creative journey has developed at the intersection of health, art, education, migration, and community life.

In 2012, I founded Milenaria Arts in Medicine in Colombia. A year later, I created, designed, and implemented the Art and Health course at the University of Tolima, where I taught from 2013 to 2024. This long-term academic project became one of the foundations of my approach, bringing together health education, artistic creation, embodied learning, and reflection. My teaching later extended to Argentina, while academic and artistic projects in Mexico broadened this work across different cultural contexts.

Beginning in 2015, I expanded my practice in the United States, developing and participating in arts-in-health, community arts, and social sculpture projects with immigrant communities across New York City and New Jersey. This included work connected with the Queens Museum, as well as initiatives in educational, cultural, and community settings. Through these experiences, my interest increasingly centered on migration, cultural memory, social cohesion, well-being, and the possibilities of symbolic reparation through creative practice.

Today, I serve as Social Affairs Advisor at the Consulate General of Colombia in Newark and as Adjunct Faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University, while pursuing graduate studies in Arts in Medicine. Through Milenaria, I continue to develop and research participatory arts-in-health approaches with immigrant communities in New York and New Jersey.

My current project, Raíces de Cuidado, brings together migration, memory, belonging, and culturally meaningful creative practices. Its experiences—including La Tierra me Sana, Ríos de Vida, and Bordando Esperanza—create spaces where participants can reconnect with their stories, cultural knowledge, place, and one another.

Underlying this work is the Latin American concept of Buen Vivir: an understanding of good living that goes beyond individual wellness and is rooted in relationships, culture, community, place, and the ways we care for one another. My research continues to explore the intersections of arts in health, migration, social prescribing, symbolic reparation, social cohesion, participatory practice, and community well-being.