Armando’s first career was providing arts and environmental education during the day. At night, he was a performance artist, teaching, producing art shows, and performing.

Later, he became an environmental activist. He planted trees, held meditations, advocated for setbacks on neighborhood drilling, ran electoral and policy campaigns, supported direct actions and art builds, provided youth training and facilitation, and traveled internationally within the environmental movement.

His current goal is to ensure that the United States honors the Paris Agreement, ensuring a maximum of 1.5 degrees of warming.

Armando has a wide network of professionals dedicated to transformative action, and he is uniquely positioned to solve social challenges as a senior activist and expert in people engagement, communications, crisis management, strategy, and campaigning.

Working the grassroots but also climate tech startups doing internal and external communications, remote culture building, retreat facilitation, podcast production, and producing in-person corporate events.

As a dedicated spiritual practitioner, Armando encourages us to further our visionary courage by tending to our grief and upholding an imagination of justice. He nurtures a transformative culture among teams through friendliness, compassion, directness, accountability, and most importantly, support.

He asks his community to practice the kind of radical adaptations our world needs while being gentle with our mistakes. He lives with the Earth and moves with the culture.