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Enterprise AI Leader @ Salesforce
Founder @gym.nyc | Peña Collective
Art Curator & Collector • Real Estate Investor
NYC | DR 🇩🇴 @560slnyc @villarosedr

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Cross Country 1st & 2nd Grade girls did amazing 💪

#firstandsecondgrade #crosscountry #girlsteam #runninggirls #rule

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Cross Country 5th & 6th Grade girls did amazing 💪

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Getting a seat at the table is one thing. Having the influence to shape what happens next? That’s something else entirely.

For years, we’ve talked about getting more Latinos into rooms where decisions are made. But what happens once we’re there?

How do we build trust, navigate power, make our voices heard, and create opportunities for those coming behind us? As AI transforms the workplace, what will separate good leaders from truly influential ones?

That’s the conversation @chrispenanyc is bringing to the Latino AI Summit in New York City!

Chris isn’t just talking about leadership from the sidelines. As a Vice President and CIO Advisor at Salesforce, he advises Fortune 500 executives on AI and digital transformation. He’s a former CIO, entrepreneur, author, and executive with more than 25 years of experience navigating the intersection of technology, business, and people.

Chris is bringing a powerful perspective: The biggest gap in the AI era may not be a technology gap. It may be a leadership gap.

AI can analyze the data, write the memo, and build the model, but can it read the room? Build genuine trust? Navigate difficult conversations? Inspire people to follow a vision?

That’s where human intelligence becomes our competitive advantage.

In his keynote, “From Seat to Influence: Human Intelligence and Latino Leadership in the AI Era,” Chris will explore how we move beyond simply being represented to becoming influential and how we use that influence to open doors for others.

Because representation matters. But what we do with that representation matters just as much.

November 9–10 | New York City | BMCC

Come be part of the conversations shaping what’s next.

#LatinoAISummit
#LatinoLeadership
#ArtificialIntelligence
#FutureOfLeadership
#LeadershipDevelopment

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Introducing The Peña Collective.

A New York-based cultural platform rooted in collecting, curatorial practice and dialogue.

We believe art becomes more meaningful when we understand the people, places, histories and lived experiences around it.

The Peña Collective is a space to champion artists and ideas we believe in, share the stories behind the work, and create conversations around identity, memory, belonging and contemporary culture.

Some of that will take the form of exhibitions. Some through collecting, publishing, collaboration and conversation.

The common thread is simple:

Art in context.
Culture in dialogue.

And this is only the beginning.

Next: NO TENGO, a new body of work by Ugly Fernandez, presented by The Peña Collective.

Coming soon.

Soundtrack: Michel Camilo, “Caribe.”

@pena_collective
@uglyfernandez

#ThePeñaCollective #NoTengo #ContemporaryArt #CuratorialPractice #NewYorkArt

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“NO TENGO AMOR SANO”

We inherit more than our mother’s eyes and our father’s hands. We inherit their fears, their pride, and the pain they never had the words to explain.

In Dominican homes, love often came with a “cállate y no llores,” a “tú crees que la vida es fácil,” or a “yo me sacrifiqué por ustedes.”

We watched our mother’s aguantar por los hijos, our fathers swallow their emotions.

We learned that love meant staying, even when it hurt. That forgiveness didn’t need an apology, and that what happened inside the house stayed inside the house.

And so we grow up carrying wounds that were never ours to begin with, only to fall in love with someone carrying wounds of their own.

Two people trying to give each other a love neither has ever known.

Because sometimes we don’t hurt the people we love because we lack love, but because we learned love through pain.

Y lo más triste es que nos enseñaron a aguantar el amor, pero nunca a vivirlo en paz.

#NoTengo #PeñaCollective

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“All Dominicans Go To Heaven”

For the first nine months of our existence, everything is taken care of. We are sheltered, nourished, and loved before we even understand what love is. We exist without expectation, without judgment, without knowing the weight of the world.

Then we are born.

And slowly, life begins to shape us. We inherit more than our parents’ features. We inherit their sacrifices, their fears, their traditions, and their understanding of what it means to survive.

Growing up Dominican, you learn that love isn’t always spoken. Sometimes it’s a plate of food waiting for you, a grandmother’s prayer, the sound of merengue coming from another room, or a mother telling you to be careful before you leave the house.

We spend our lives becoming people shaped by the ones who came before us. Carrying pieces of a country, a culture, and a history that existed long before we did.

And somewhere along the way, we begin searching for the same peace we experienced before we were born. A place where we were loved without having to earn it. Where we belonged without having to prove it.

Maybe that’s what heaven is.

Not necessarily a place above us, but a return to where we came from. To love in its purest form. To something greater than ourselves. To God, however we choose to understand Him.

We never asked to be here, yet we’re given this beautiful, complicated opportunity to exist.

And when our time comes, perhaps death isn’t the end of that experience.

Perhaps it’s simply going home.

All Dominicans Go To Heaven.

No Tengo 11/12-11/14

Acrylic Paint
20x20

#NoTengo #PeñaCollective

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Wedding celebration for Eduard & Camila 🥂wishing you all the best 🌹💍

#weddingbells #eduardandcamila #oct2026 #unity #fypシ❤️💞❤️

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Casa de Campo Food & Wine Festival with my lindo.

#fyp #americanexpress #Chandon #casadecampo #RonBarcelo

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“Do As I Say”

Growing up as a boy in a Dominican household, I heard phrases like this all the time.

“Aquí el que manda soy yo.”

Authority rarely needed an explanation, and asking questions could be taken as disrespect. At that age, I sometimes confused control with care and intimidation with leadership. I was learning what it meant to be a man from the men around me, before I had the perspective to question what I was being taught.

Now, as a man, certain experiences have made me revisit those lessons. I can love where I come from and still question what I inherited. I’m learning to listen, to explain, and to take responsibility for how my words affect others.

The boy I was needed room to speak. The man I am is learning to make that room.

9x12
Pen,Crayon, Sharpie

Dm @chrispenanyc to inquire.

#PeñaCollective

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The Peña Collective

Coming soon….

#thepenacollective #street #art #notengo #fyp

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“No Tengo Minutos”

This piece brings me back to watching my mother buy Claro cards to add minutes to her phone and call our family back in the Dominican Republic. Those trips to the bodega to buy tarjetas became a ritual, a way to stay close to the people we missed.

Time had a cost, and every minute with family was intentional. You only had so many minutes to tell someone you loved them, that you missed them, and to hear their voice before the time ran out.

#NoTengoDraft #PeñaCollective

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Cruising by @gym.nyc today ☀️

#gymnyc #nyc #running #on #heat

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