Judith Areli Pérez Garza
Class of 2020
Specializations: Factors of vulnerability and policy-making process to reach development.
Hometown: Anáhuac, N.L., México
Bio: Judith was raised up in a little town from the north of México, very close to Laredo, Texas. In 2009 she moved to Monterrey to study a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature in Tecnologico de Monterrey. In 2013 she worked in a Marketing Consultancy on Real State projects as part of the Internal Communication staff. In 2014 she discovered her passion to teach and research. Since then, she has taught Spanish, Literature, History, and Art to students of a high school in Monterrey. In 2016 she developed an academic project called “Sustainable Tourism at a local stage”. Through this experience, she has immersed in social entrepreneurship topics in low-economy communities.
Now she is interested in continuing her research on the vulnerability in the north of Mexico and about successful strategies in other Latin American countries to reduce poverty, inequality and social problems.
Concentration: Development
Research Area – Substantive: Factors of vulnerability and policy-making process to reach development.
Research Area – Geographic: Latin America, mainly Mexico.