With 30 years of experience in the IT industry in both México and the U.S. Patricia is the Senior Business Systems Analyst for the Imagine team at Berkeley IT. The team provides enterprise document management system services to all campus departments. As the Senior BSA, Patricia has been instrumental in bringing campus departments towards paperless business processes through a series of complex projects, which in turn, has allowed her to successfully use a wide variety of communication tools.
As a leader in her community, Patricia is the founder of two Native Higher Ed Institutions. She has been invited as a visiting scholar on Native Traditions to institutions, such as, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, Woodland Community College, California College of the Arts, Santa Rosa Junior Community College, as well as other institutions in the U.S.
Patricia participates with an essay in an anthology of Chicanx/Latinx traditions. The anthology was published in 2019 by The University of Arizona Press. Two of her recent essays have been published by Ofrenda Magazine, a prestigious Latinx on-line magazine. She is also a frequent analyst and commentator on Latinx and Indigenous issues.
