I've always needed
to know why.

I grew up wanting to understand how things actually work. So I studied physics. But equations weren't enough. I needed the human stories underneath the data, the people living inside the systems. So I became a journalist. I invited myself into strangers' homes. I went to uncomfortable places. I asked uncomfortable questions. Because understanding the world from a distance was never going to be enough for me.

After graduating in Physics from UNAM, I founded the Science Communications Unit at the Institute of Physics at UNAM. Not long after, the Institute of Physics (IOP) in England came knocking. I spent two years there as Latin America Account Manager, working with the most important universities and physics associations across the continent. That's when I understood something that would define everything that came after: scientists are doing some of the most important work in the world and almost none of them know how to make it matter to anyone outside their field.

So I went to get the other half of the toolkit. As a Chevening Scholar I studied Science Media Production at Imperial College London, then Journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York as a Fulbright Scholar. I reported from Mexico City, London, Washington D.C., and New York for The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Scientific American, Gatopardo, the BBC and many more.

In 2021, I hosted and led production of Un Poco de Contexto, a Spotify Original news podcast in Spanish about current affairs in Mexico. The 32-episode weekly series reached #1 in News in Mexico on Spotify. Not because we had the biggest platform. Because we refused to stop at the first explanation.

That show opened doors I didn't expect. Brands started coming to me wanting what we had built. Kizaya Studios, the production company I had founded to make Un Poco de Contexto, became the vehicle for something bigger. Among the clients that came knocking: El Colegio de México, one of Latin America's most prestigious academic institutions, for whom we produce Pasado/Presente: Historia en Podcast, an ongoing history podcast now in its fifth year. And BirdNote, a non-profit dedicated to bird conservation awareness worldwide, for whom Kizaya produces the Spanish version of their flagship series and contributes to original English episodes.

But somewhere along the way I lost the thing I was actually built for, which is making sense of the world. So I'm back. And I'm not going anywhere.

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