Fernando Jerez

 Academic degrees

Undergraduate in Political Science

Current position at CIIPEC

Research assistant

 

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Professional experience and areas of expertise 

 

Graduated in Political Science from the Rafael Landivar University in 2014. His graduate thesis was an analysis of the discourses on how indigenous communities are narratively constructed as a “public enemy” from the dominant elite and the government in contexts of community resistance and defense of territory rights. Since 2007 he has worked on action-research projects on sexual and racial identity and since 2013 in projects of legal empowerment and developing community-led accountability actions in public health services of rural indigenous communities of Guatemala. He has collaborated in several research projects developing instruments, interviews, training processes, data collection, among others. He has taken specialization courses in quantitative methods, social network analysis (SNA), leadership for legal empowerment.