Program Coordinator at REACH since May 2021. From a young age, I nurtured a love for storytelling through 2-Dimensional media, such as illustration, comics, and animation. I was born and raised in Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but I have lived in Lansing, Michigan for 10 years. I have worked in customer and food service jobs around the Lansing area, as well as as a learning assistant at Lansing Community College for Art and Spanish subjects. Through it all, art has allowed me to be an everlasting learner and an enthusiast for life. Art allows oneself to expand their voice and empower their neighbors to seek justice and greater potential; its process is not one of magic, but of relentlessness, and it pushes me to build solidarity with those who are most different than myself.