Activism

Here is a list of the top 10 polluting companies.

I collaborated with Awful-AI, a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society Awful AI

I’ve been working with teams in Mexico that search for missing people since 2014. Usually we search for missing people who lived in or were near regions with no electricity or the latest technology. Since members of the team in Mexico don't know how to program and they cannot afford buying GPU's, I look for solutions for these accessibility issues.

Roberto Maldonado and I created a program that finds common phrases within pdf files to help researchers chase mills that create fake research papers. RAMO.

Chicago-based artist Justus Harris and I won first place at Adaption 2017 in the category “Art + Data”. Adaptation is an EU commission-funded competition and exhibit that highlights the potential of the “Internet of things”. We exhibited our work in Berlin, Germany. Adaptation, Fountains

In 2012, I volunteered to organize an international cultural protest in Mexico; there, I coordinated the creation of a book about indigenous poetry and gave advise about art expositions in Chicago, among other peaceful activities. Here you can see an interview about my involvement by Hispanic Graduate Student Association at FSU Link to the 2021 HIGSA video recording.

Volunteer at AccessibleNU. I helped a couple of students with disabilities catch up on their math courses.


Indigenous Movies that I recommend:


White lies.
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale.
The pearl.
Embrace of the serpent.

Banned books:


Sun-i Samch’on by Hyun Ki-young.

Protest songs worth listen to:


Wirikuta no se vende By Aho Colectivo Mining companies steal the sacred land of the Wixárikas. Can you imagine what would happen if a miner steals the sacred land of a major religious group?
Multiviral by calle 13 Fun fact, they mention an activist group I used to belong, #yosoy132.
Somos sur by Ana Tijoux An anthem for people living in the south.
The Hamilton mixtape: immigrants An anthem for immigrants
This Is America by Childish Gambino Fun fact, I used to live in a KKK area.
This Is NOT America by Residente you wonder what people learned in geography if they don't know that America is a continent.
Un derecho de nacimiento by Natalia Lafourcade Song dedicated to the activist movement I used to belong: #yosoy132.
Canción sin Miedo by Mon Laferte y Vivir Quintana