Alejandra Watanabe-Farro

Alejandra Watanabe-Farro

Alejandra Watanabe Farro is an international Ph.D. student in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. She holds a B.A. Communications, and a M.A. in Environment, Development and Policy from the University of Sussex (UK). Her professional background has been primarily in conservation in Peru. Alejandra has worked as a social communicator in different environmental organizations in the design, development, and execution of communications strategies for environmental policy change. Using a decolonial approach, nested in the feminist political economy field, her research interests explore the politics of environmental policymaking by examining the processes of participation and consensus-building, while paying particular attention to the historical power dynamics embedded policy-making process itself. Alejandra is currently graduate research assistant at the Human Rights Investigations Lab, leading undergraduate students in open source investigations to discover and verify human rights violations in the Americas.