Biography

I grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, during the negotiation and implementation of the country’s peace accords. After graduating high school, I volunteered at the country's Truth Commission, where I first encountered victims of the conflict and the artists who worked alongside them to foster reconciliation through memory and art. At Yale University, I studied History and Human Rights to answer two questions: how does political violence come to be? What does a society owe to those it has harmed? Through research across Colombia, Mexico, Bosnia, and Argentina, I kept running into how the remedies available to communities rarely measured up to their own understandings of what had been taken from them. Legal frameworks recognized loss of life and liberty, but not the futures that violence had made impossible. I am currently completing an MPhil in Development Studies at Cambridge, where I study how post-atrocity memory museums in Asia seek to operate as sites of inclusive national development. As a Gates Scholar, I will explore the relationship between memory and future-making by analyzing the languages and methods that communities use to narrate harm, resist forgetting, and imagine forms of wellbeing lying beyond current political possibilities.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Development Studies 2026
Yale University History 2025
Yale University Human Rights Studies 2025