Her father was a paper box printer and her family's poverty helped foster her interest in art, out of the necessity of creating their own clothing and Halloween costumes.

In 2007, she co-founded Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration based in the Mission in San Francisco that highlights peoples stories of struggle, vision, hopes and dreams.

The collaboration is a series of prints and multimedia projects that center around Third World (developing countries) and indigenous movements and the erasure and loss of culture of these people.

Dignidad Rebelde's purpose is to illustrate stories of struggle, resistance and triumph into artwork that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.

As an artist, Cervantes has exhibited at Galería de la Raza (San Francisco); Woman Made Gallery and National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago); Mexic-Arte and Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (Austin, TX); Crewest (Los Angeles); and at the Musée d'Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France).