Advocacy and public life

Contributor to the campaign. Helped collect the signatures that enabled her candidacy and hosted the launch event of her candidacy in Queens, New York.

Joined the movement that promoted the candidacy of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez in the 2022 runoff.

Organized an event where he publicly endorsed the campaign, together with economist Mario Valencia. It brought together political leaders, such as the Representative of Colombians abroad, and local musicians and artists such as Carlos Aguasaco, Germán Jaramillo and Patricia Ariza.

• Organizer of a community support event with musicians, community members, local activists, trade unionists and Colombian political leaders.
• Musical co-curation for her first victory celebration in Queens, New York.

• Designed the Comprehensive Charter of Immigrant and Emigrant Rights, for the protection of the political, social, human and cultural rights of Colombians abroad.
• Advocated for a strong support system for Colombian artists, to facilitate Colombia’s dialogue with the world through the arts.
• Sponsored the incorporation of the entrepreneurship and knowledge of Colombians living abroad into the human and productive development of the nation.

Part of the coalition that prevented the fast-track approval of the Pacific free trade agreement promoted by the Obama administration.

With other local activists, organized educational talks on the impacts of the TPP, one of which Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize in Economics, attended. The intense activism won the vote of Congressman Joseph Crowley, who prevented the fast-track approval.

Active member from 2009 to 2020. Representative for North America to the IV Party Congress in 2015.

Co-founder of the alliance, which has opposed the gentrification and displacement of local small business owners.

Organized the opposition of the Jackson Heights, Corona and Elmhurst communities to the Business Improvement District (BID) model promoted by Mayor Bloomberg. They became the first community to overturn a BID initiative since the model began in the 1980s.

Thanked the administration for an important step on immigration, the inclusion of the so-called Dreamers in the activation of the economy. Called for a review of the repressive police policies applied against undocumented immigrants, since fear and persecution affect the creation of local jobs in immigrant communities.

Stated that small business owners do not need tax exemptions; they demand that billionaires take on their fiscal responsibility through a more progressive distribution of the tax burden.

Said that revitalizing communities requires democratizing access to credit for small entrepreneurs and promoting policies that defend the purchasing power of local wages.

Co-organizer in the United States.

As a spokesperson for the Main Street Alliance, defended the right to health care for the 50 million people without coverage, essential to the stability of jobs and local businesses.

Gave the small business owner’s perspective: the 2008 economic collapse began with the unpayable medical debts of a middle class burdened by the high cost of medical services, while insurers got rich by denying care and citing pre-existing conditions.