I went to school for directing, and I thought that was going to be everything that I was going to be doing. I never wanted to do comedies. I was always making these sad dramas. Then the pandemic started right as I graduated. I actually ended up graduating on Zoom. I had to move back in with my parents. So I just wrote, wrote, wrote and decided to write a comedy about living in Tallahassee. And then that became my sample into comedy rooms.

So after that, I became an assistant to the co-showrunners of Gentefied. So I went from being a showrunner assistant to writer assistant to script coordinator to writer on that show. It was the craziest six months of my entire life. That was my first gig. From then, I went to Gordita Chronicles on Max. That was my first staff writing job. Then I went to Blockbuster for Netflix. And then I went to Acapulco on Apple TV+. We were in the middle of filming my episode in the middle of the strike. Those four shows are the four shows that Ive written on, all created by Latinos.

Even prior to everything, Apple asked us, What is your schedule if theres a strike? Can you get the scripts done? So they were already kind of creatively being like, How do we make sure all the scripts are done before a possible strike? So we were already writing really fast, trying to make sure that our scripts were done when our union contract ended. We had already voted to strike. It was really about those last few days where people were like, Maybe theres a chance. I was in Mexico in Puerto Vallarta shooting my episode.

Luckily, I wrapped my episode by that Friday. By Monday, the strike had started. So I flew back to LA, and actually some of the Abbott Elementary writers organized a bar hang where all of our writer Twitter friends were together at this bar as we awaited a response. Thats when we found out that it was gonna happen. And it was nice cause we were all around writers of color, queer writers, new writers. And we all were like, OK, lets get a few drinks before we have to wake up tomorrow and pick up our picket signs.