After moving to Healdsburg I sought out the same type of experience that I had grown up with and instead struggled to find the Latin voice at the foreground of this community’s social fabric, and I lived on a street where neighbors didn’t know each other’s names, or maybe I didn’t know theirs.”
“After we opened two restaurants… I found myself working with our staff in translating doctor calls, loaning money, helping with their taxes, resolving issues with their kids at school, and understanding legal documents. We raised money for about 8 years before we opened Corazon doors. Our mission was to not only create a resource center but to build and strengthen the community. This process has led us to our current mission at Corazon to build a compassionate and just community by empowering and dignifying individuals and families, advocating against injustices, and uniting people to celebrate diversity.”
“At the end of the day, my passion and my heart are called by the raw human spirit that lives in all of us. Tradition, food, culture, music & emotion are the instruments that ground, cultivate & awake this human spirit. It is my hope to serve our community by cultivating spaces, creating traditions & opportunities for this human spirit to be tasted & shared collectively.”