I am a researcher and scholar working at the intersection of leadership, technology, and healthcare. As part of my Ph.D. studies at Lesley University, I explored and reformulated Hannah Arendt’s concepts of the Private and the Public as presented in her seminal work, The Human Condition. My dissertation proposes a novel understanding of the Private and Public as modes of human existence and interaction across diverse domains, including education, business, and doctor education. My work examines how leadership emerges through Verwandlungen and how movement between Private and Public spheres can serve as a catalyst for innovation, transformation, and collective action. Before my studies at Lesley, I attended The Longy School of Music of Bard College where I completed a Masters degree in Vocal Performance. Today, I integrate music to my presentations as an interdisciplinary method to illustrate concepts and ideas in a wide array of fields including leadership, capabilites, and more. My name Xochitl means flower in the Náhuatl (Aztec) language.

Check out my article titled Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens published by Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. I am honored to be featured by this prestigious research center in their most recent digital symposium!

Harnessing the power of interdisciplinarity to break boundaries, I like to use music as a powerful pedagogical tool to convey concepts in the fields of leadership, capabilities, and more to make surprising yet effective connections. The science of how we learn has shown that diverse domains–including music and the arts–can provide special ways for our brain to make knowledge. In certain instances, I find that music can help bring to the fore ways of understanding that are not available using words only. This coming September, I will use music to shed light to important concepts as part of my talk “In Between Worlds” at the Human Development and Capabilities Association Conference to be held in Antwerp, Belgium.

I’ve loved singing and performing for as long as I can remember. Personally and professionally, I believe that singing has influenced me in very deep ways, strongly shaping who I am. My favorite part of singing is the feeling of joy and self-expression as I open a whole new dimension of communication with an audience.  I completed an undergraduate in Vocal Performance at Longy School of Music of Bard College and later a Masters of Music also at Longy.