Alexandra Chocontá-Piraquive is a Ph.D. candidate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and holds a Master's degree in Gender Studies. Alexandra is a Colombian first-generation college graduate working with urban, rural, and indigenous young women in Colombia since 2013. Her doctoral dissertation centers on young Colombian women's voices and experiences navigating the empowerment girlhood discourse based on entrepreneurship and peacebuilding. Alexandra works in different places where the empowerment discourse occurs, like social media platforms, public policy, and trade fairs. Alexandra has extensive experience working with popular feminist organizations that uses textile practices and social media platforms to create, promote and demand sexual and reproductive rights in Colombia. She has publications in Spanish and English about the Colombian armed conflict, memory and reparation, feminist praxis, Participatory Action Research, and feminist ethnographies. Currently, Alexandra is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota and was awarded the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (2023 - 2024).
Alexandra is in residence with ICGC during the 2023-24 academic year.