Alejandra Yépez Morales Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

Manhattan, New York, United States

• Helped more than 150 recently arrived migrants, both HIV positive and negative, to adapt and access the American health system.
• Developed alliances with partner organizations to provide critically needed services for my clients, including legal, nutrition, and mental health services.
• Accompanied more than 20 asylum seekers in completing the I-589 form, which is the application for asylum and for withholding of removal.
• Co-planning and development of the Zero Transphobia campaign, an advocacy project aimed at raising the visibility of the systematic discrimination suffered by transgender individuals in the US and Latin America.
• Provided more than 100 rapid tests for HIV, syphilis, and Hepatitis C.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Oversaw the YOU! Program, aimed at reaching, educating, and empowering black and Latinx youth in New York about their sexual and reproductive rights.
• Led a team and fostered a collaborative and innovative team culture, resulting in successful project delivery and measurable education/HIV prevention outcomes.
• Achieved a 200% improvement in the project efficiency indicators.
• Planning, coordination and organization of the YOU! Summit and the YOU! Back to School party.
• Researched and successfully implemented a capacity-building workshop to train my team in the Seeking Safety intervention.
• Field experience in healthcare areas such as providing hundreds of rapid tests for HIV, syphilis, and Hepatitis C.

Cuzco/Madre De Dios, Peru

Developed the first unified communications strategy for this important British environmental NGO located in Cusco. Bilingual management of all the social media accounts of the association. Generation of multimedia content to make visible the scientific and social projects of the institution (empowerment of local women through the implementation of bio.

Lima, Peru

Managed a team (20) to assist 1500 journalists who attended the Pan American and Para Pan American Games Lima 2019.Succeeded to connect basketball athletes and para-athletes with journalists from all over the Americas, in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Taught my team the safety protocols to avoid any disturbance in the game events

Lima, Perú

Spokesperson for the Automobilist Association of Peru. Link between the demands of the consumers and the automobile companies. Design, analysis, implementation, and monitoring of the first digital communication strategy of the magazine. Design and writing of graphic and multimedia products for the social media channels of Automás.

Lima, Peru

Published 60 stories of varying length and immediacy for the most important news enterprise of Peru, in all the channels available (radio, tv and digital press). Supported the Peruvian Ministry of Health in its Human Papiloma Virus vaccination campaign by arranging interviews and spreading scientific and accurate information.

Lima, Peru

Writting of scientific and academic articles for the institutional portal of the most important university of Peru (PUCP). Clear-cut explanation of specialized topics for a non-specialist audience (physics, sociology, law, chemistry, etc.).

Lima/Oxapampa, Peru

Reported environmental and social conflict news for a regional audience of the highlands and rainforest areas of Perú.Organized, produced, executed and analyzed a news coverage for the Selvámonos festival, a musical and artistic event that promoted indigenous rights and independent musicians from Europe and Latin America

Lima, Peru

COP 20: Member of the UN press team. I covered the event for the UN Peru website, in addition to conducting press reviews and clippings for the Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon. Elaboration of multimedia content and Community Manager of the website of the UN / UNIC.

Lima, Peru

Journalistic coverage of municipal elections (posts in Twitter, Vine and Facebook). Subject: District needs of polling voters in my neighborhood

Lima, Peru

Development of inspirational stories about social leaders of change. Community Manager

Lima, Peru

Personal assistant of the Chief of the Department of Communications. Helped with the organization and diffusion of the international academic event “Sensibilidad de frontera: Comunicación y Voces Populares”, which gathered latin american specialists in popular culture and mass media.

M.A., Political Science And International Cooperation, Political Science And International Cooperation

Focus on management of social development organizations, political advocacy, partnership amongst stakeholders and analysis of policy.

Alumna De Intercambio – 3Er Año, School Of Journalism, Media And Cultural Studies

Studies in international conflicts, grass-roots radio initiatives and racism in media.

Bachelor Of Arts In Communications, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Coloquio de Estudiantes 2012 y 2013, Seminario Internacional "Sensibilidad y Frontera": Comunicación y Cultura.