Research Experience and Fellowships
Los Angeles, Guatemala City, London, New York City, Madrid, Warsaw, Berlin
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2023 AIPG Seminar participants in Krakow, Poland. (Photo by AIPG).
Raphael Lemkin Global Seminar
2023 Fellow-in-Residence at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Krakow and Oświęcim, Poland (March 12 - 19, 2023)
Through education, training, and technical assistance, AIPG supports States in developing or strengthening policies and practices for the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities. We also encourage and support the cooperation of States through regional and international networks to advance prevention.
As a Fellow-in-Residence at the global edition of the AIPG’s Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention in Krakow and Oświęcim, I conducted a learning module for a group of 30+ international government officers and diplomats on denial narratives in postwar Guatemala.
Lev Student Research Fellowship
Center for Advanced Genocide Research at USC Dornsife Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Los Angeles, CA (July - Aug. 2022)
The Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship provides $3,000 in support for USC students from any discipline to conduct a month of research in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) and other related USC resources and collections.
At the Center, I conducted research with the VHA testimonies of Guatemalan genocide survivors focusing on aspects and patterns of resistance.
Lobby at the USC Shoah Foundation. (Own photo, July 2022).
April 2018 protests in Managua, Nicaragua. (Photo by Voice of America).
Latin American News Dispatch
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU
New York, USA (Sept. 2017 - Jan. 2020)
The Latin America News Dispatch produces original news stories about Latin America, the Caribbean, U.S. foreign policy and Latinos in the United States. I collaborated as a writer for Central America and the Caribbean for over two years.
Between May and September 2019, produced, wrote, and distributed Today in Latin America (TILA), LAND’s weekly newsletter. Edited an average of 10 news stories every weekday and manage TILA’s mailing list with 5,000 subscribers and social media accounts (Facebook and Twitter), reaching over 8,000 total followers
Gallatin Global Fellowship in Urban Practice
Urban Democracy Lab at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU
New York, USA - Madrid, Spain (Jan.-Aug 2018)
GGFUP provides funding of up to $5,000 and support for 6-10 advanced undergraduate and Master’s students at NYU to pursue extended, community-engaged, practice-based research projects in partnership with urban social justice organizations.
Collaborated with organization Servicio Doméstico Activo (SEDOAC) and produced an academic report on the history of Latin American migration to Spain at the turn of the millennium, particularly emphasizing on gendered labor force in Madrid’s service industry.
I documented my experience in this blog.
Domestic workers protest in front of the Congreso de los Diputados in Madrid. (Own photo, June 2018).
2017 Warsaw Fellowship cohort in the Museum of the Polish Jews.
Humanity in Action Fellowship
2017 Warsaw Program & Berlin International Conference
Warsaw, Poland - Berlin, Germany (May-July 2017)
The Humanity in Action Fellowship explores issues of democracy, pluralism, human rights, and social justice. The Warsaw program examines this unfolding systemic crisis, focusing in particular on hate speech and other human and minority rights challenges in Poland. The Fellowship looks at diversity in an era of growing polarization and radicalism—and offers an opportunity to engage in activism and do good while learning from the bravest and most innovative change-makers in Poland.
After four weeks, Fellows convened in Berlin to examine the rise in nationalism, populism, xenophobia and extremism in Europe and in the United States as well as strategies for responsible citizenship for the 2017 International Conference.
Santiago Atitlán, Sololá. Jan. 2017. Photo by William Martin III.