== Alan Pelaez Lopez: Article Draft ==
== Alan Pelaez Lopez: Article Draft ==
”’Alan Pelaez Lopez”’ (1993 – current) is an AfroZapotec scholar, creative writer, cultural critic, and visual artist.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gordon |first=Lewis |date=2018-05-01 |title=Black Issues in Philosophy: Interview of Alan Pelaez Lopez {{!}} Blog of the APA |url=https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/05/01/black-issues-in-philosophy-interview-of-alan-pelaez–lopez/ |access-date=2025-12-08 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Surviving Illegality; Imagining Otherwise |url=https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2025/surviving-illegality-imagining-otherwise/ |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=S A V V Y Contemporary |language=en}}</ref>
”’Alan Pelaez Lopez”’ (1993 – current) is an AfroZapotec scholar, creative writer, cultural critic, and visual artist.<ref>{{Cite web |title= {{!}} |url=://../-/ |access-date=2025-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Surviving Illegality; Imagining Otherwise |url=https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2025/surviving-illegality-imagining-otherwise/ |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=S A V V Y Contemporary |language=en}}</ref>
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== Early Life ==
== Early Life ==
Alan Pelaez Lopez, Ph.D., was born in [[Mexico]] in 1993. They constantly migrated between the state of [[Mexico]], [[Mexico City]], and [[Oaxaca]]’s [[Costa Region|Costa Chica]]. In 1998, at the age of five, Pelaez Lopez migrated to the [[United States]] alone as an undocumented minor. At the age of eight or nine, they began expressing their interest in becoming a poet to their mother.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gordon |first=Lewis |date=2018-05-01 |title=Black Issues in Philosophy: Interview of Alan Pelaez Lopez {{!}} Blog of the APA |url=https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/05/01/black-issues-in-philosophy-interview-of-alan-pelaez-lopez/ |access-date=2025-12-08 |language=en-US}}</ref> To make an income during that time, Pelaez Lopez made jewelry, leading them to find their passion for art.
Alan Pelaez Lopez, Ph.D., was born in [[Mexico]] in 1993. They constantly migrated between the state of [[Mexico]], [[Mexico City]], and [[Oaxaca]]’s [[Costa Region|Costa Chica]]. In 1998, at the age of five, Pelaez Lopez migrated to the [[United States]] alone as an undocumented minor. At the age of eight or nine, they began expressing their interest in becoming a poet to their mother.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gordon |first=Lewis |date=2018-05-01 |title=Black Issues in Philosophy: Interview of Alan Pelaez Lopez {{!}} Blog of the APA |url=https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/05/01/black-issues-in-philosophy-interview-of-alan-pelaez-lopez/ |access-date=2025-12-08 |language=en-US}}</ref> To make an income during that time, Pelaez Lopez made jewelry, leading them to find their passion for art.
== Academic Achievements ==
== Academic Achievements ==
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Alan Pelaez Lopez: Article Draft
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Alan Pelaez Lopez (1993 – current) is an AfroZapotec scholar, creative writer, cultural critic, and visual artist.[1][2]
Alan Pelaez Lopez, Ph.D., was born in Mexico in 1993. They constantly migrated between the state of Mexico, Mexico City, and Oaxaca‘s Costa Chica. In 1998, at the age of five, Pelaez Lopez migrated to the United States alone as an undocumented minor. At the age of eight or nine, they began expressing their interest in becoming a poet to their mother.[3] To make an income during that time, Pelaez Lopez made jewelry, leading them to find their passion for art.[1]
Academic Achievements
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Later in 2010, during the DREAM Act votes, Pelaez Lopez became involved with immigrant rights artistically, socially, and politically. After the DREAM Act Legislation failed in 2011, Pelaez Lopez contributed in organizing an 11-nights and 12-day action on the steps of the Massachusetts State House to denounce and testify against criminalization of immigrants in the United States. Later, they were assigned leadership roles with the Student Immigrant Movement. Not longer after, they were also involved with the Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project. Mentored by undocumented Black migrants from the Caribbean and South America as a young organizer led them to developed a feminist vision for the liberation of Black and Queer individuals. Pelaez Lopez was able to attend meetings with U.S. Senators and Representatives through community organizing and strategizing. They also protested detention centers in CA, TX, NY, and MA; and led political education workshops in Washington DC, NY, MA, VT, CA, GA, TX, IL, PA, and CT.
After receiving the National Youth Courage Award for their commitment to uplifting the voices of LGBTQIA+ United States undocumented immigrant in New York City in 2013, Pelaez Lopez moved to Los Angeles to complete a fellowship at the UCLA Labor Center where they launched their visual storytelling project and have worked in the field of public and digital narratives in 2014.
Alan Pelaez Lopez was also a former steering committee member and co-founder of both Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement and the Black LGBT Migrant Project (BLMP).[4]
After completing a PhD in Ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley, Pelaez Lopez began their academic career at San Francisco State University as Assistant Professor of Race and Resistance Studies where they pushed to change the Queer Ethnic Studies program to the “Queer and Trans Ethnic Studies” program, centering transgender studies.[5][4]
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