A continuación, encontrarás una presentación de algunos de nosotros:
Angélica Cabezas
My parents gave me the name of my mother, who encouraged me to talk about real stories. So I became Documentary Filmmaker. I was born in a very small town in the south of Chile, full of apples and stories but with just one library. I travelled to Manchester to make an MPhil in Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking, and I am struggling with the “old rules” of Anthropology. I am working on Queer theory+practice and Postidentity using film and ethnographies of the particular. I am angry (more exactly, “mad as hell”) for the kind of slavery we lived in, under the dictatorial speech of capitalism and hegemonic consumism.
Paula Clasing
My name is Paula Clasing, I am from Chile and I am a sociologist. In my professional life, I have worked in topics related to Chilean education, specially to higher education. My interests are linked to quantitative research methods in the social sciences, education, and recently the topic of family and public policies. At the present time, I am doing a Master in social statistics in the UK. Among the things that annoys me are the discrimination, the intolerance, and the lack of opportunities.
Alejandra Isaza
I am a Colombian historian. I am doing my PhD at the University of Manchester in the program of Latin American Cultural Studies. I have worked as a researcher and as a teacher in the fields of Latin American Colonial History and Cultural History. I have joined the Collective because I want to learn about the different ways of thinking and living that shape Latin America and because I want to learn and question how these ways of thinking and living reflect a relationship with the rest of the world. I think that we are living in times of change, which demand a creative approach to problems and an open mind to find not just solutions, but points of view that will allows reflecting on our role in the world. It pains me to see how many people are willing to invest their lives into formulas that promise a quick and easy solution to problems, into formulas that do not stimulate them to change nor to reinvent themselves; I believe that if we take our problems as challenges and strife for a creative solution, we can start a process of change not just the world outside, but ourselves and that is the beginning to a new world.
Angélica Jimenez Rosales
My name is Angelica Jimenez Rosales. I’m a Mexican PhD student in Chemical Biology at the University of Manchester. I’ve done research in different fields of science as chemistry, biology, medical clinic and pharmacy. I joined the CPL because I want to question myself and the world in which I live in. I believe that in times when everything changes, you should be open to learn from others and reflect on yourself, to face the future with creativity and enthusiasm. Everyday bad things happen in the world, and nothing will change if we are to continue to do the same things we do as we always do them. If we face our problems with creativity and enthusiasm, we will perceive them as challenges and we will develop our ingenuity, skills, abilities, competences and talents. That’s the starting point to change our reality.
Adrián Leguina Ruzzi
My initial formation was in statistics (bachelor and MSc). My research interests are wide, but my favourites are multivariate data analysis and statistical modelling of latent variables applied to social studies. Currently, I am a PhD student at Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester. My research topic is focuses on music consumption and seeks to determine if contemporary forms of cultural practises are reflection of social and demographic differences in society. With this objective, I will use statistical models capable to capture the complexity of the subject. It makes me angry (INDIGNA) inequalities and injustices that individuals must suffer in all dimensions of life. But mostly I am worried about how some groups use scientific and technical knowledge to reinforce and perpetuate their positions of power, looking for justify negative practices of the economic, social and political model that accentuate inequalities and enrich the few.
Anilena Mejia
I am a PhD student at the Clinical Psychology Division. My research interests are behavioral difficulties in children, prevention of conduct problems and the use of parenting programs in poor countries. I am particularly annoyed by the inequalities that exist in the world we live. While in some countries people have access to good quality education and health services, people that live in other countries (like in the Latin-American region) are learning, day by day, how to cope with a very harsh reality. We live in a very unbalanced world, ruled by a few. I decided to be part of Collective Political Learning (CPL) because I think education and critical thinking is a mechanism to change what we don’t like about the world we live. We are all postgraduate researchers, and part of our responsibility is to analyze what we investigate and apply it to the real world. I truly believe that CPL is a platform for this. Oh, and I forgot, I am 100% from Panama and have all that rythm in my blood!
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Alejandro Navarro Espinosa
I am Industrial Engineer and Master of Science from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Master in Power Systems and Electrical Energy from the University of Manchester. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in Distributed Generation and Clean Technologies on Low Voltage distribution networks in the University of Manchester. Previously, I was Studies Director in an Energy Market Consultant Group and lecturer at Universidad de los Andes and DuocUC. I would like to change the “status quo” in the electricity market to incorporate sustainability concepts in the energy business.
Eduardo Olivares
My first home was Copiapó, a small city in the north of Chile, surrounded by hills, sand, and desert. I grew up in a middle-class family, with only one TV channel broadcasting the Pinochet dictatorship's point of view news. Late I realized about its crimes. Journalism was my career choice. I have worked as journalist for more than a decade in the main newspapers in Chile. I had good opportunities to interview and share experiences with high-level officials, but also with common people. Getting involved in social issues and linking both worlds (authorities and citizens) was my target when studied my career, and albeit not always what you dream of becomes real, I feel I did accomplish my goals most of time. To continue working in areas I think I could contribute well, I entered the academia. I got a masters in International Affairs by the University of California, San Diego, and now I am conducting a research about party systems in developing countries. Active journalism and academia work well together, but they especially do when set social justice and fair balance of power as their cornerstone. That's why I joined the Collective Political Learning, where ideas are discussed with passion but respect, where we do not always get same conclusions, and where we all share critical views on how to improve the society we have.
Hugo Romero Toledo
Sociologist, Master in Social Research and Development, PhD© in Human Geography. I research socio-environmental conflicts and Political Ecology focusing in how large investment projects modify communities and their territories in the context of the Neoliberal model. I am concerned about territorial injustice, and how the decision about nature and society are taken by the elites, according to their economic, political and cultural interests.
Aurora Sambolín Santiago
I´m from Puerto Rico, I have a Master Degree in Translation Studies and I´m doing a PhD in Literary Translation. I am also a freelance English into Spanish translator. At the moment I´m researching into 2 Puerto Rican fiction writers who write in English, which is not their natural native language, and self-translate themselves into Spanish. I´m interested in how these writers as Post-colonial writers who have been victims of cultural and political colonialism fight back by appropriating the colonizer´s language and turning it in a subversive hybrid language that they can call their own. I have joined the Collective Political Learning Group because I am not satisfied with the priorities of the society we live in. Society will not change unless we discuss what´s wrong with it and what we can do to contribute to build a better one where rights like the right to free education, good health care and fare salaries are respected and where we can all be part of the decision making somehow.
María José Sandoval Suazo
I am Civil Industrial Engineering at University of Santiago of Chile and nearing finishing the MSC Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at University of Manchester. I have been working in Creativity and Higher Education, participating in several projects related to institutional development, curricula development, institutional capacities and academics training in some universities of my country. My interests lay in the area of education, entrepreneurship and individual realisation. I believe that people make the change, and that we are responsible of that, however I do not like the way the structures are depriving people to access to have a better quality-life. For that reason, there are many things that I do not tolerate such as discrimination, inequality in the distribution of resources, and the exploitation of the land and its people, which I can summarize in the lack of love in all senses.
Tania Sauma
Actualmente soy estudiante de Doctorado en Física en la universidad de Manchester, estudié licenciatura y master en la universidad de Chile, donde participé activamente de la política universitaria, particularmente de los movimientos estudiantiles de los años 2005, 2006 y 2011 donde tuve diversos cargos de representación local. Creo que el capitalismo es absolutamente devastador para el planeta y siento la urgencia de transformar la forma en que nos relacionamos entre seres humanos. Creo profundamente en la organización colectiva para hacer estos cambios necesarios y es por eso que llegué al collective, sintiéndome un poco huérfana en la práctica política, en busca de una instancia de discusión y aprendizaje.
Denisse Sepúlveda Sánchez
I'm Denisse Sepúlveda Sánchez, Chilean, I'm from Araucania's region. I'm sociologist of Universidad de la Frontera and I hold a Master in Gender and Culture of University of Chile. I had been working as editor in chief of "Al Sur de Todo" journal and I had been part of editorial committee of "Punto Género" journal. Also, I had been working in Inequalities project of University of Chile in subject related to ethnicity, social structure and gender identity. My research interests are the construction of national identities and national radical movements. It makes me angry the accumulation of wealth and power of a few, especially the consequences arising from this phenomenon: ethnic discrimation, economic and gender inequality, social intolerance, abuse of power, monopoly of the media and many others. I think as citizens we lost power and rights to an extremely unfair system.
I am Italian and three years ago I started a PhD on Mexican foreign policy. I spent last ten year studying and working in Italy, Mexico, Spain and Great Britain. I am specialised in Foreign Policy and International Relations, and I am particularly interested in Latina American and European political processes, think tanks and social movements. I contributed to different electoral campaigns both in Italy and abroad. Politics and its international and communication aspects have always been in my interested and I think pure theorisation is not sufficient. For this reason I joined the CPL. I believe that we need to re-think in political participation restarting from the base, from people. Many time people’s needs are misunderstood or ignored by the actual political class, distorting common people’s priority scale and creating every day a more unequal society. I am sure that if people start listening to each other’s voices, sharing experiences and collaborating, they can re-take the power they lost creating a better conditions in the society they are living in.
Giulia Sirigu
I am Italian and three years ago I started a PhD on Mexican foreign policy. I spent last ten year studying and working in Italy, Mexico, Spain and Great Britain. I am specialised in Foreign Policy and International Relations, and I am particularly interested in Latina American and European political processes, think tanks and social movements. I contributed to different electoral campaigns both in Italy and abroad. Politics and its international and communication aspects have always been in my interested and I think pure theorisation is not sufficient. For this reason I joined the CPL. I believe that we need to re-think in political participation restarting from the base, from people. Many time people’s needs are misunderstood or ignored by the actual political class, distorting common people’s priority scale and creating every day a more unequal society. I am sure that if people start listening to each other’s voices, sharing experiences and collaborating, they can re-take the power they lost creating a better conditions in the society they are living in.
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