Bio

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I was born and raised in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. I hold a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from El Colegio de San Luis, and a Master's degree in International Cooperation for Development from the Instituto Mora, in Mexico City, both institutions part of the national network of teaching and research centers in Mexico.

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I hold a PhD from one of the most prestigious peace and conflict resolution programs in world, at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, at George Mason University. At Mason I had the opportunity to work under the advice of leading scholars in the field of peace, narrative and conflict resolution. For my doctoral dissertation, entitled Genocidal Mexico: The Unfolding of Mass Violence, Radical Categorization, and the Narratives of the “War on Drugs”, I explored the rise of criminal conflicts in central Mexico and how the process of violence rests on the elaboration and dissemination of dehumanizing narratives that justify the lethal targeting of groups deemed as killable. For my research, I conducted fieldwork in Guanajuato, the most violent state in Mexico for the past eight years, and I contextualized the rise and effects of criminal violence, drug trafficking, and security policies.

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Since my time at George Mason University, I began teaching courses in undergraduate and graduate programs in international relations and in conflict resolution in Mexico and the United States. For the past four years, I have been an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Sociopolitical and Legal Studies at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO), the Jesuit University in Guadalajara, Mexico, where I teach online English courses on international relations and advise national and international students from diverse social backgrounds.

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After obtaining my doctoral degree, I applied my academic training back in Mexico as I worked in high-level positions in the national government in areas of security, peacebuilding, and human rights policy. I served as a Director of Operations and Monitoring in the then newly created Unit for Peacebuilding at Mexico Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). There, I was part of a group of young public servants with academic and activism backgrounds adamant about changing the security paradigm that for decades shaped Mexico’s security policies. During my tenure at the Security Secretariat, among other tasks, I co-designed and implemented violence-prevention strategies in the regions most affected by criminal violence. I also participated in drafting biweekly reports on crime statistics in the country.​​​​​​​​​​

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In the Fall of 2021, I had the incredible opportunity to work as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. I was hosted by both the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. During my time at Notre Dame, I was able to continue my research and writing.

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From late 2023 to early 2025, I served as Director General of Human Rights Public Policy, at the Secretariat of the Interior. During my tenure, I led the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of human rights policies that included peacebuilding initiatives, strategies for the protection of vulnerable groups, training of public servants, among others.

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I currently live with my wife outside Washington, D.C.