My story

I have always been someone who lives between worlds.

Born to parents from two different Caribbean cultures, I learned early that two people can experience the exact same moment in completely different ways, and that both of them can be right. That realization never left me. It became the lens through which I see everything.

For thirty years, I have made that lens my work. I’ve led communications for major institutions, built an entrepreneurship program recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration as one of the best in the nation, three years running, and taught more than a hundred workshops. I’ve worked in corporations and government offices, in universities and on the radio, in English and in Spanish, on both sides of borders, always doing the same thing: helping people understand each other across difference.

This work runs deeper than a career. I studied it. My degree from DePauw University is in International Communications, and I hold a Master’s in Communications from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico, with intercultural public relations coursework completed in Madrid. Even as a student, I was founding international organizations, hosting a global radio show, and serving on my university’s diversity task force. I have been doing this work, in one form or another, my entire adult life.

That work grew out of a life lived between cultures. I have lived in the Caribbean, Indiana, Seattle, London, and Texas. I have traveled to Morocco alone, taught children in dual language classrooms, and raised two fully bilingual adults in a city far from where I grew up. Everywhere I have gone, I have sat across from people who see the world differently than I do, trying to understand them, and hoping they would try to understand me.

Out of all of that came InterCulturaling™. And out of InterCulturaling came the book.

I started this work because I kept seeing the same thing happen. People who genuinely meant well leaving each other confused, dismissed, or quietly written off. Not because anyone was unkind. But because we all walk through the world assuming everyone else was raised with the same invisible rulebook we were.

That assumption costs us more than we realize. It costs us relationships. It costs teams their best ideas. It costs organizations the full potential of the people they already have.

I have seen what happens when that changes. When people finally have the language and the understanding to make sense of what has been getting lost between them. When someone who has spent years feeling like an outsider in a room suddenly feels seen. When a team that has been talking past each other starts actually hearing each other.

That is what this work is about.

Through keynotes, workshops, and the InterCulturaling Journey, I help individuals and organizations understand the cultural dynamics shaping how they communicate, collaborate, and connect. Not with theory. With stories, real insights, and practical tools that make the invisible visible.

Because the people who can bridge different worlds are not a liability. They are exactly what any team, any organization, any community needs more of.

I am also the author of InterCulturaling: For Those of Us Who Live Our Lives in Translation and the People Who Live It With Us and Amtrak’s Best Kept Secret.

You can follow the full arc of my career on LinkedIn.

If something here resonates with you, I would love to connect.

A note about the logo.

The aperture at the center of the InterCulturaling™ logo is not accidental. A camera aperture opens to let in light and reveal what was previously invisible to the eye.

The aperture at the center of the InterCulturaling™ logo is not accidental. A camera aperture opens to let in light and reveal what was previously invisible to the eye.

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