If you want to understand me, start here: when I was 5 years old, my mom used to wake up at
5 o'clock in the morning, to find me inches from the TV, watching Halloween on VHS
like it was Saturday morning cartoons.
Horror producers aren’t born…we’re forged in the glow of a TV in a dark room.
I grew up Puerto Rican and Black in a very white Chicago suburb, which honestly felt like the first horror movie I survived. Movies became my safe place long before they became my career. I was terrible at sports, theater kids were too… theater kid-like, and I couldn’t play an instrument to save my life.
But I could sit in front of a screen. Getting lost in the world and analyzing why a movie worked
(or didn’t…I was a very opinionated kid).
One high school film class was enough to make me switch majors while applying to college.
In 2016 I graduated with a Film & Video degree from Columbia College Chicago. The business, the collaboration, the vision-building, and yes…being in CHARGE! While I loved post-production, it was
too lonely…I’m an Aries, I need people and a little chaos!
I worked my way up fast: producing and coordinating commercials for AT&T, McDonald’s, Xfinity, Toyota, Planned Parenthood, and the Illinois State Lottery. Then came television — wrangling magicians on The Carbonaro Effect, organizing locations on Showtime’s Work in Progress and Shameless, and helping Apple Music spotlight late-Chicago artist, Juice WRLD.
In 2019, I moved to L.A. to work in development and landed at NBC just in time for COVID. My time in development is where I discovered my true superpower: building pitch decks. I loved crafting aesthetics with filmmakers to pull execs and investors into a world before a frame is shot.
Throughout my career I’ve worked across numerous platforms, formats, and departments— commercials, scripted & unscripted TV, short films, primetime networks & streamers, development, pre-production, production, and post-production. And people love to pigeonhole you:
“Don’t get stuck in post-production”
“Line producers aren’t creative”
“You can’t produce movies, if you’re producing reality TV”
But to that I kindly say, screw that! My career proves skills are transferable, adaptability is an asset, and understanding multiple corners of the industry makes you an asset to any team.
I can talk to creatives and translate them to the C-suite, troubleshoot a meltdown, and see problems before they even arise.
While producing shows on Netflix like Selling Sunset, Selling the OC, Hitmakers, and most recently Wonka: The Golden Ticket Experience, I returned to my first love of film.
This fall, I wrapped my first feature, The Rider: Burning Chrome, with
(surprise, surprise) a few horror projects in development.
If you’re wondering whether I’m too busy to contact, you’re probably right…
But if you’ve read this far, you also know:
I love it this way.
*The em dashes used in this bio are sponsored by my junior high English teachers, not A.I.*