BEFORE THAT

I founded Cita Press, a publisher of open-access books, in 2017. With Cita’s fiscal sponsor Educopia, we raised ≈$1M to create digital readers, bilingual books and ebooks, and ensure our work remains free for everyone. Initially an all-volunteer passion project I started as a student, Cita is a now grantee of the Mellon Foundation, a design studio, a merch store that goes to fairs, and a champion of illustrators and women authors. Cita’s latest book, A Luminous Halo (out 2025) is a collection of selected writings by Virginia Woolf.

I was a 2022-2023 fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where I researched the history of image manipulation, from spirit photography to AI. Before joining the Times, I was a consultant for Mozilla’s Creative Media Awards, received a Public Knowledge Mellon grant, and worked as a designer in advertising, in-house at art museums and non-profits, and as a freelancer.

I hold an MFA in Design from the University of Texas at Austin, where I was a Fulbright scholar. I studied visual design at the National University of Colombia and the Politecnico di Torino. I’ve lived in four countries, and speak three languages. I now live in Brooklyn.