Hometown: Jupiter, Florida

Bio: Alondra is a first-year Master’s candidate in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School for Foreign Service. She received her BBA from Emory University in May of 2025, completing a double-major in Business and Spanish and double-concentrations in Organizational Management and Arts Management. While at Emory, Alondra completed and defended a senior thesis titled “Música, memoria e (in)migración: explorando el cancionero del (in)migrante mexicano,” for which she received highest honors. She was also named the sole recipient of the Carlos Rojas Award for Excellence in Writing by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. In addition to her academic pursuits, Alondra has completed several internships in the arts and humanitarian sectors. Most notably, she served as an administrative intern for Dance Canvas, an Atlanta-based dance organization, and as a microenterprise development intern for the International Rescue Committee, a global NGO specializing in humanitarian aid. At Georgetown, Alondra aims to nurture her academic interests by exploring the intersection between advocacy and the performing arts. A musician by training, she intends to leverage her own performance experiences to better understand the role(s) of the arts in critical sociopolitical processes.

Research Area – Substantive: Transnational Migration, Contentious Politics, Performance Activism, and Memory Studies

Research Area – Geographic: Mexico