Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.

To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.

I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.

Being Latina in the US is something I'm learning about everyday. I don't feel inherently different in any way from anybody else and it is a feeling I cherish and that has helped me avoid thinking of my ethnicity as a potential obstacle from what I want to achieve.

I do hope to inspire, I mean I live off inspiration and its the force that keeps me working, that keeps me creating.

I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit.

Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone.