New Chapter: Endings and Beginnings

I know that it has been about six month since my last post and even before then I was not keeping up a regular posting schedule as I used to in the past. But I figured at this juncture in the my life an update was appropriately due.

To repeat all the expected cliches of someone ending a life-changing event and about to embark on a new one, I wanted to express that I do look forward to what is to come and that the past few years have been the some of the most formative and influential years in my life thus far, and that when I look back I will remember how much I grew as a person and how much my work I will continue will be forever changed.


After two years, I am graduating from my master's program in theology at Harvard Divinity School. As I said, I am grateful for the opportunities I've had to be influenced and changed by this interesting, problematic, yet exciting and thought-provoking place. I have met so many wonderful and exciting people that have challenged me in all the right ways in my own personal growth and in the ways I approach my work as a scholar, storyteller, and activist. Professors like Susan Abraham and Mayra Rivera Rivera have managed to turn my brain into a puddle of decolonized thoughts and musings. Yet they make me proud of the work that I do and the questions I ask about the world around me. I leave HDS ready for the next adventures that lay ahead.

In the fall I will be starting my doctoral program at the University of Southern California in Spanish and Latin American Literature. My interests remain to fall into examining the relationships between religion, theology, and sexuality with Latin American contexts. I'm excited to be moving back to California and being closer to family and old friends.

This summer, however, I am dedicated to finishing a number of writing projects that remain incomplete. One of which is my book Outspoken, which I like to describe as less of a book and more of an individualized and group resource. This piece speaks to the importance of storytelling in activism and in life in general, while sharing the strategies and tools I have looked to in my own work to make that happen. Next, is my book project that theologically interrogates the relationship between exorcisms, ex-gay ministries and homosexuality. This has been a two year project in the making that I hope to be close to finishing by the end of the year.

And finally, I hope to return to posting regularly as I think about new things and wrestle with new moments in my life and in the world. So please stay tuned to my newest posts. I ask for your blessings and positive energies as I move forward with what's to come.