#  Alejandra "Ale" Rosa 

Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

 

 

 



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***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.



 

 

 





 

 

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