After five years of living abroad (in Mexico) and working in government (National Institute of Public Health) want to find other work in the Central American RegioN. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Harvard University and a Masters in Public Administration from Baruch College at the City University of New York. I am currently working as an Associate Researcher at the National Institute for Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. I have co-authored various articles and chapters on qualitative research on HIV/AIDS in Mexico and Central America. As Guest Lecturer at the School of Public Health in Mexico, I teach in Health and Human Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Qualitative Research Methods courses. I have some experience in documentation of human rights violation based on HIV status as well as qualitative research experience in the area of sexuality and migrants. I have served as regional coordinator for the MOBILE POPULATIONS AND HIV /AIDS in Mexico and Central America a project that aims to develop, implement and evaluate strategies to reduce the vulnerability of local and migrant populations to STD/HIV/AIDS in transit stations (border towns and cities) in Central America and Mexico. I have also managed a project that monitored and evaluated two of family planning clinics at state run hospitals for quality of services. These activities were undertaken in collaboration with local institutions in an effort to reinforce institutional linkages between them and the Center for Health Systems Research (CISS in Spanish) at the National Institute for Public Health in Mexico. Finally I worked as one of the lead researchers in project which recognizing that epidemiological evidence identifies a crucial role in the HIV epidemic for high transmission areas (HTAs places with a high rate of new partnership formation). This study is an attempt to implement this rapid assessment method to identify HTAs and estimate indicators useful for monitoring prevention programs in HTAs in two border towns along the Mexican border.

Before moving to Mexico, I worked at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in San Francisco, California as a Americas Regional Specialist dealing with human rights violations based on sexual orientation or HIV status. Before working at the Commission, I served as Executive Director fo the La Raza Information Center in San Francisco a small migrant rights organization.