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Nelson🇺🇸/Roberto🇸🇻
Boston, MA
Separated from my family during El Salvador's civil war, by death and adoption, I am an author, filmmaker, and technologist.
Identifying Nelson/Buscando a Roberto
My First Film | (2010 - Present)
S.B.C. Panamá
Building A Business | (2007 - 2012)
Ana's Miracle
Finding My Voice | (2007 - 2011)
The Village Bank
Custom Software Development | (2004 - 2006)
Starting the Search: My Advice to Salvadoran Adoptees
I often get asked for advice on searching for your birth family, so I created this page to share all of the information I have on the subject.
So you've set a New Years' resolution, great, but what is your system?
It’s that time of the year again when we all set New Years Resolutions. I wanted to share a different approach to resolutions that works with your brain and doesn’t make you feel like a failure. I discovered this approach a few months ago and have a lot of success using it in my own life.
You are not a failure
Throughout my life I have failed. I have failed so many times, in so many different ways. Often, it seemed like the things that I
The Colorful Misfits
These photos first appeared in print as part of the 2015 issue of The Misfit Anythogly. For the magazine I wrote: > My favorite type
Taste, execution, and resilience. The three parts to making our art.
Studying a wide range of artists and entrepreneurs led me to identify three themes that are essential to making “art.” They are taste, execution, and resilience.
Misfit Con: A Home for Dreams, Doers, and Makers
Memories of summer camp Growing up, my brother and I would spend our summers at Camp Frank A. Day. Those days spent on the shores
Why you should support (and share) your friend’s work
I noticed something recently. People, for the most part, don’t share their friends’ “work.” By work I don’t mean 9-to-5 day job type stuff, I mean their passion projects. But why is that?
The Paradox of Not, Not Working
Not too long ago I realized that there are plenty of times when I'm not actively working, but I'm not exactly disengaged either. But I struggled with what to make of these activities in between working and not working.
Libertad: A song for my birth mother
A song written by my biological father in memory of his wife, and my mother, who died during El Salvador’s civil war. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spanish
15 Years of Anna’s Taqueria
In 2011, one of my favorite restaurants, Anna's Taqueria, held a contest to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The winner received a party catered