Alexa De La Fuente

Alexa De La Fuente (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student at Yale University in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is also currently pursuing a certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. Her current research interests focus on media, in its content, traces, and possibilities. She has previously written on Latinx television shows, but she has been expanding her screen interventions with different projects. For example, she has conducted research on Latin American cyberfeminism with the Esperanza United Research and Policy Latina Leadership Fellowship. She has also presented and is in the process of presenting her work on feminist web cartographies in Juarez, Mexico, transnational Latinx movies, and the process of film archiving documentaries depicting Indigenous people in Mexico.

She is the co-founder and one of the organizers for Yale’s Nahuatl Working Group. She has been learning modern Nahuatl through IDIEZ since 2021.