I was brought up surrounded by books and the captivating stories my father would tell me during the weekends. As soon as I learned to read my paradise became the warm, cozy atmosphere of my school’s library and my constant companions were the enthralling characters I found in my books. As a young girl, I was an introvert preferring the fictional realities found within pages to what I thought were the monotone rhythms of everyday life.
I grew up and my interests expanded outside of the pages and into a world of multidimensional stories around me that I had surprisingly not noticed before. As the years passed by and I shed my shyness and my girlhood, my curiosity exploded, aimed first into the magic of film and later into art and history. I had the privilege of traveling to different countries and every new place I visited captured me with hushed whispers of past and present. I started to listen to what these places had to tell and notice how differently each place told its stories. I felt like a time traveler, an observer privy to the wildest secrets.
When the time came to choose what to study in university I chose Communications with the intention of exploring different pathways that I had an interest in. Through some twists and turns and unexpected opportunities, I ended up in Boston for six months in an exchange program where I discovered that I could write. This revelation changed my chosen specialization from film to journalism.
Right after university, I started working at a lifestyle and culture magazine in Mexico as an editorial intern. Within the glossy walls of my first workplace, I discovered once again another source of stories that I had overlooked: people. I started to listen to everyone who wanted to talk to me. I learned what questions to ask and observed carefully things that people would tell me without words. I rose rapidly through the ranks of the magazine and became digital editor.
Soon, I had outgrown that place and my thirst for knowledge could not be satisfied in Mexico. I set out for London to do my first MA in Creative Industries and Arts Organisation at Queen Mary University. Here, I learned about the different creative industries and the historical impact and importance they have had economically and socially. Though the COVID pandemic sent me back to Mexico just six months into my MA, I decided that London and I still had some blank pages that would need to be filled.
During the two following years, I finished my MA dissertation, worked at a Content Creation and Talent Management Agency, and landed a job at Conde Nast as an adaptation editor at GQ. However, the opportunity to return to London arrived with an acceptance letter to attend Central St. Martins MA Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries.
And so, one of the most complex yet fulfilling experiences of my life started. I decided that people’s stories needed to be told. I wanted to find a way to become that channel through which creative individuals would be able to tell their own stories and their project’s stories, in such a way that would engage whoever came in contact with them, with the final objective of helping them reach their goals. My project is a Creative Consultancy, based on my experience as a writer and editor and focused on helping young creative individuals learn how to tell the most captivating stories, through mastering narrative structures and tools as well as guiding people to take control of their own creative identities to gain the confidence needed to become their own storytellers.