Creative. Curious. Always questioning. Culture strategist, doctoral candidate, writer. Exploring what it actually takes to change institutions.

Professor by day; Lover of beauty by day and night

Author of MAKE YOUR HOME AMONG STRANGERS and HOW TO LEAVE HIALEAH. Forthcoming essay collection, NEVER IMAGINED ME HERE. First-gen college kid, Latinx, #305.

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I write to remember what I might forget and to understand things I don’t.

CEO of the Aspen Institute. Author of The Innovators & bios of Steve Jobs, Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Henry Kissinger. Former editor of Time, CEO of CNN