Since he was a teenager, Carlos has been involved in community work. In 2017, Carlos founded his first nonprofit, Football for the Future. Through this organization, Carlos and his team provided free soccer and educational camps for hundreds of low-income kids in central Texas until 2020. In 2019, Carlos founded his second nonprofit, the Detained Refugee Solidarity Fund. This nonprofit existed to morally and economically support migrants and refugees detained in ICE detention centers throughout the United States.
Carlos received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Vassar College in 2020 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2024. Currently, he has over 23 million followers on social media, where he posts bilingual videos informing and uplifting the Latino community in the United States. Carlos is the most followed Latino activist in the United States. Beyond making content, Carlos now spends most of his time leading the nonprofit organization “The Espina Project” and his community center in Houston, Texas.