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. She graduated from Brown University with degrees in Ethnic Studies and Education. She won the Distinguished Thesis Award in the Ethnic Studies department, and she was honored with enrollment in Phi Beta Kappa. As a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, her research centered on television and Latina representations with each chapter either being published in undergraduate journals like the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal or public platforms like Latina Media Co. She has also received the Alfred H. Joslin award and the Brown Health and Wellness Senior Student Award for her community work as well as being selected as the Latinx Leadership Honoree by the Latino Alumni Council.

Her current research interests continue to focus on media, in its content, traces, and possibilities. She has conducted research on Latin American cyberfeminism with the Esperanza United Research and Policy Latina Leadership Fellowship. She has presented and is in the process of presenting her work on feminist web cartographies, Latinx movies, and film archiving. Her research and travels have been supported thus far with Yale’s Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Fellowship, the MacMillan’s Center International Conference Travel Grant, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grant from the University of Utah.

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.