PORTFOLIO 2019

During the Summer of 2019, with the support of the Ministry of Education of Guatemala, I trained 250 K-12 teachers on gender violence prevention using the violence framework developed by Dr. Cecilia Menjivar. This training was an effort to center Mental Health through violence prevention strategies.

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION GUATEMALA 

Teacher Training

In this  webinar on critical mental health awareness you will learn:

1. A short history of the colonial roots of the field of psychiatry

2. A critical overview of the values implicit in a western understanding of mental health

3. The four pillars of a Latin American understanding of mental health 

4. A social media strategy to develop critical mental health awareness

This webinar provides an overview of the ways in which oppression can become medicalized and why mental health is a political issue especially for communities of color. 

NALGONA POSITIVITY PRIDE

Webinar 

Voces de Mujeres is a women-run radio show of the Universidad de San Carlos, the public University. In this interview, I explained how the systems of mental health work in Guatemala and why it is important to educate for the prevention of gender violence as a first step for mental health. You can find my interview here! It is in Spanish!

VOCES DE MUJERES

Radio Interview 

During this Keynote, I spoke to Latinx teenagers about the importance of developing critical mental health awareness and how to value our Latinx culture to develop healthy coping mechanisms and resilience. As research shows La Cultura Cura!

 THE 12TH CUMBRE JUVENIL LATINX

Keynote Speaker