My name is Andrea Roman Alfaro [two last names] (she/ella). I am a Peruvian mestiza Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Toronto, a Vanier CGS scholar, a Connaught Public Impact Fellow, a Mary H. Beatty Fellow and a graduate fellow at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto.
I come from the territories that are now called Peru. I was born and raised in the coastal province of Callao, but my family roots are in the Peruvian northern Andes, northern Lima, and the south of Spain. I grew up in Callao and, at the same time, was immersed in the Andean practices and traditions of my grandmother and her siblings at a young age. I currently reside in Tkaronto, the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and the Haudenosaunee peoples. |
I am a scholar and activist who combines research with community work and advocacy. I firmly believe in the transformative power of engaged scholarship. Thus, I spend a lot of my time working with community, collectively responding to social justice issue, and creating new alternatives for a more just future. As a result of my dissertation research, I am currently working with a group of young people from Puerto Nuevo (Callao) with whom we have created Puerto Nuevo's first young people-led community house. La Casa Comunitaria Juvenil - Puerto Nuevo (aka La Casa de Al Fondo) offers a space for kids and young adults to come together to learn and spend a good time. You can support the work that we do here.
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