Before pursuing my current career, I worked professionally in the hospitality industry for eight years, making my way through a range of restaurants and covering different positions as a waiter and as a chef.

After the 2008 global economic crisis and given the growing need for social change I decided to embark on a complete change of career in search of new tools that would help me enable change for my community. I chose to study a BA in Political Science at Seville, in southern Spain and worked as a volunteer with CEAR (Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid) for over three years.

My political activism and participation with local grassroots movements allowed me to analyse how local councils were confronting the different urban and social issues they encountered and understand some of the many failures in the system. The internal view of council work made me aware of a general lack of solutions and ideas in a time of climate emergency and growing inequalities. This led me to continue my studies by applying for an MSc in Sustainable Cities at King´s College London. After finishing my MSc at KCL I was able to participate as a volunteer with Global Diaspora, an international network of diaspora movements, and not long after I was hired at Local Trust where I worked in the programme development team, supporting the completion of what is a groundbreaking and radical participatory funding scheme with 150 community organisations across England.

I am currently Project Coordinator for the International Federation of Pedestrians where I manage the Horizon Europe project and CIVITAS Initiative, REALLOCATE (https://reallocatemobility.eu), I support JUST STREETS (https://www.just-streets.eu/) and other projects and research. I also recently wrote a report on the relationship between pedestrians and cyclists for the Korean Transport Institute.

As always, I continue to participate locally with community organisations, collectively enabling change and creating new ways of imagining our cities. I participate in AAVV Malacara El Pinar (a neighbourhood association that fights to bring together our local community), Ecologistas en Accion (a local ecologist activism group) and La Zancada (our metropolitan pedestrian organisation). As part of my activism I have written reports for different organisations my hometown covering topics that range from housing, democracy, local commerce and sustainable mobility.