In the year 2000 Agua Dulce moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to study Political Science and Education at the University of San Francisco. It was there that she was introduced to School of the Americas Watch, an organization fighting for the demilitarization of Central and South and Central America. During her seven year commitment to this movement Agua Dulce learned the power of collective action and the importance of rooting social movements in art, theater and culture. SOAW taught Agua Dulce that movements can make space for grief and healing; and that grieving together is a powerful tool for power building and transformation. 

When Agua Dulce moved back to Los Angeles in 2005, they moved to South Central to organize with youth and their families at a local community center. Very soon after arriving on this new path, Agua Dulce became an active member of T.R.U.S.T. South L.A. a local land trust fighting for affordable housing and green spaces for South Central communities. The movement lessons learned during these years (2005- 2014) are part of the medicine she now carries into all movement work and her work as a Healing Justice consultant.

These lessons are: 

*Organizing begins in the authenticity of the relationships one nurtures;

*Political education is necessary as a tool in the process of concientización, becoming politically aware, raising our own and collective consciousness;

*Movements that center thoughtful leadership development processes-help create committed, sustainable, and hopeful teams.

All of these experiences are brought into her work as a Healing Justice consultant. 

From 2013-2015, Agua Dulce served as a board member of Dignity and Power Now, a Los Angeles-based organization that fights for the dignity of all incarcerated people and their families.  She accepted the role of Director of Programs (2015) and then, Director of Healing and Wellness (2017- 2020). In these roles, her goal was to lead Healing Justice work that honored the powerful legacies of BIPOC communities while creating infrastructure for a sustainable movement connected politicized healers network, called Building Resilience. They did this by spending five years strategically organizing healers into abolitionist movement work focused on liberation and justice for Black, Brown, and poor communities in Los Angeles. With much dedication and heart Agua Dulce created programs that served families who had suffered the loss of their children at the hands of the state (police violence, etc). These programs embodied healing justice and transformative justice as strategies towards abolition. 

Currently, Agua Dulce is the Healing Justice Organizer for Justice Teams Network, where she is building out a statewide politicized Healers Network in California. She is also training communities across California in Healing Justice principles and practices using a Healing Justice train-the-trainer facilitators manual she wrote with the loving support and editing guidance of Cat Brooks and the Justice Teams Network. As part of her Healing Justice practice, Agua Dulce is most excited about sharing sacred medicine making and earth based rituals with rapid response organizations across California and beyond.