My career spans over two decades, moving from frontline emergency communications to high-level institutional brokering.

Earlier in my career, I served as the Regional Communication in Emergencies Focal Point for UNICEF’s Latin America and Caribbean office, and later as Chief of Communication for UNICEF Bolivia. I have also held strategic communication and media relations roles with the WHO, UNODC, UNIC and the Colombian Presidency, managing complex information flows during humanitarian crises and diplomatic transitions.

Today, my work centers on a specific, stubborn problem: the extractive nature of modern technology in marginalized communities. Recently, in June 2025, I founded Hemispher-IA Business & Knowledge Hub (LAC) to bridge the gap between rigorous academic research and on-the-ground reality. Currently, I´m directing the Memoria Viva Ngäbe project, a binational pilot across Panama and Costa Rica that develops offline-first, open-source infrastructure to protect Indigenous epistemologies.

Humbly and honestly, I do not claim to be a machine learning engineer. My expertise lies in assembling the right technical and community partners, securing strict ethical audits (via CLET and CAIDP), and ensuring that projects are funded to pay real, dignified salaries rather than relying on unsustainable volunteer models. I firmly believe in the principle that technology should serve communities, not extract from them, and that durable public goods require professional, fairly compensated execution.