Bio

I am a Philly based licensed clinical social worker and public health professional. Informed by Immigrant-Filipino parents who love through a sense of home, a chosen Queer family who resist subjugation and a public health community that seeks to honor social and environmental context, my approach is relational, inter-subjective and grounded in love, honor and respect.

I received my graduate training in social work from the University of Pennsylvania and my graduate public health training from Drexel University. I am completing my Doctorate in Behavioral Health from Arizona State University and focused my academic work in developing programing in patient-centered medical homes, integrated-health, recovery oriented primary care and body-positive behavioral interventions. I am a licensed anger management treatment professional, compassion fatigue educational professional and have a certificate in Clinical Social Work supervision. 

Currently, I teach a wide range of graduate courses that invite an intersectional approach to social work practice at Columbia University and West Chester University. I am also a project director for medicated assisted recovery initiatives across a network of federally qualified health centers and am a behavioral health consultant for patients in primary care. I am deeply honored to be doing this work and to be in community with caring and compassionate colleagues and social workers.