Overcoming Gender Bias
All around the world, students find their education severely disrupted by Covid-19—including at Harvard and for this Chilean at Harvard in particular. In Chile, all educational institutions in the…
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Country: Chile
Crossing Paths
Human mobility often comes at the expense of the landscape and the nonhuman. Roads and transportation systems intensify habitat fragmentation. Toxins from the road materials leach into the soil. Animals (of the nonhuman sort) are killed by collision with automobiles…
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The Accordion Experience in Public Spaces
English + Español
It was not easy to begin my doctoral program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design when the world is changing at rates that I had never witnessed before. The remote mode gave me the…
We the People Constitutional Reform and Immigration in Chile
This January, I had the pleasure of interning virtually with the Constitutional Lab at the Diego Portales University based in Santiago, Chile. Driven by a desire to attain fluency in Spanish and
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To Violeta
English + Español
n the 1990s when I was conducting research on the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, I used to travel with my grandmother Josefina to the small town of Montegrande where Gabriela spent…