Alejandra Martinez Rico

Alejandra Martínez-Rico is a PhD student in ethnomusicology from Bogotá, Colombia. Her interdisciplinary research engages the fields of Latinx and migration studies, music, gender, spatial politics, and digital humanities. She is currently interested in critical sonic practices, experimentalism in popular music, and the imaginary of cumbia in the Americas and the Global North. Prior to Yale, she studied at Universidad de los Andes and, as part of a foreign job exchange program, at Wesleyan University.