Originally from Athens, Ohio, Alejandra earned her M.A. in Latin American Studies in May 2017. After earning her M.A., she entered the doctoral program in Medical Anthropology at Tulane. She also earned her B.A. in Political Science from Ohio University. Collectively, she has lived abroad for 8 years in Spain, France, and Latin America, and speaks English, Spanish, and French. In 2015, she was a volunteer for OU's Tropical Disease Institute in an effort to cure Chagas Disease in the south of Ecuador. She has an interest in public health, particularly in reproductive health issues. Her initial research focused in Chile, specifically in the urban migration of the Mapuche population into city-centers like Santiago and how current laws impede their upward mobility; but she has more recently concentrated her research in the area of Cuban public health.
