Alejandra "Ale" Rosa

Casa Silvana | Puerto Rico

Alejandra ‘Alé’ Rosa is an Afro Puerto Rican PhD candidate at Harvard University. Rosa is anchored at the African & African American Studies Department and works in collaboration with the Critical Media Practice program. Her research raises understudied Afro Puerto Rican visual art historiographical lineages, centering Black memory as a site of liberation. This upcoming summer, Alejandra goes back home as a Harvard University Presidential Public Service Fellow, to support the work of Tiznando el país and Casa Silvana, local antiracist visual arts centered projects fighting to preserve and celebrate Afro Puerto Rican visual art contributions. Furthermore, her dissertation project was awarded a Harvard University Lee Whittinghill Samuelson Traveling Fellowship. Consequently, during the academic year 2025-2026, Rosa will stay in Puerto Rico, advancing her dissertation research, in collaboration with anti racist grassroot organizations Colectivo Ilé and revista étnica, communities with whom she builds Black radical futures, as an active collaborator, artivist, writer, researcher, and granddaughter of Gui and Lala.