Hi 👋🏽 I’m DULCE.

There are a lot of things I care about. I care about how cities work, who gets access to opportunity, and why government makes the decisions it does. I also care about art and culture, discovering a great place in Los Angeles, traveling somewhere new, and seeing how far I can push myself in a marathon.

I don’t see those as separate parts of my life. They all come from the same place: curiosity about the world around me and a desire to make the most of the time I have in it.

That’s really what DULCE. is about.

I’m a formerly undocumented, first-generation Latina whose life was transformed by education. That journey eventually took me to Northwestern University and then UCLA, where I earned a Master of Public Policy—and it fundamentally shaped how I think about opportunity, institutions, and who gets access to both. My career has taken me across higher education, public affairs, community engagement, media, and politics.

Today, much of my work is about building bridges between institutions and the communities around them—bringing together government, business, education, and civic leaders to tackle big challenges and create opportunities.

And then there’s politics.

I’ve run for office… twice. I didn’t win either race, but campaigning taught me more about democracy than almost anything else I’ve done. I knocked on doors. I listened to people talk about what was happening on their blocks and in their neighborhoods. I raised money, built coalitions, explained policy, and met people who cared deeply about their communities even when they had very little faith in the institutions meant to serve them.

Those experiences strengthened one of my core beliefs: understanding how government works shouldn’t require a graduate degree in public policy. That’s part of why I create. Policy determines where we can afford to live, how we move through our cities, what kind of education is available to us, and which opportunities we can access.

Yet conversations about those decisions are often buried under jargon—or flattened into outrage. I’m interested in the space between those two things.

With DULCE EXPLAINS., I take complicated civic and policy debates and get to the question most of us actually want answered: Okay, but what does this actually mean?

Then there’s GOOD NEWS. and BAD NEWS. Because keeping up with the world can sometimes feel like an endurance sport. One reminds us that progress does, in fact, still happen. The other covers the stories that make you want to bury your head in the sand.

But politics is not my entire personality, and I don’t want it to be.

I love Los Angeles. I love museums, exhibitions, restaurants, neighborhoods, travel, and finding the people and places that remind me there is always something else worth discovering. That curiosity lives in DULCE EXPLORES.

And I run.

I’m a six-time marathoner, which still feels slightly ridiculous to say out loud. Thousands of miles, questionable decisions, difficult training days, and some extraordinary finish lines later, running has become another way I understand myself.

DULCE RUNS. is where I share the races, training, gear, adventures, failures, and lessons that come with it.

The older I get, the more I believe our lives shouldn’t be measured solely by our professional accomplishments. Or children. Turning 40 made that feel particularly clear.

I want to care deeply about my community without letting every awful headline consume me. I want to keep learning, traveling, running, seeing art, meeting interesting people, asking better questions, trying things I may be under-qualified to attempt, and changing my mind when new information gives me a reason to.

So DULCE. isn’t about pretending the world is simpler than it is. It’s about paying attention—to our communities, to one another, and to this one very big life we get to live.

If you found your way here because of policy, politics, Los Angeles, culture, running, travel—or simply because an algorithm made an interesting choice—welcome. There’s still a lot to explore.


Live fully. Stay curious.

—Dulce