Yuby Hernandez is the Community Program Manager at the United Palace. She is an experience community organizer, and storyteller. She is Dominican American from Washington Heights, New York, and attained her Bachelors in Biology from Wellesley College. Although she does not choose to pursue science anymore she is a published scientist in the American Journal of Renal Physiology. She has two award-winning short documentaries and wants to dedicate her SVA experience to telling stories that are different and thought-provoking through a hyperlocal lens.