I am a Cuban researcher and teacher in the field of mass communication and media industries, with skills as a journalist, social media manager and webmaster. My life project expresses an intersection of experiences in two different world regions as a citizen, media actor, engaged young scholar and university lecturer. I currently work as a research assistant at Simon Fraser University for the project Policy Frameworks for Digital Platforms: Moving from Openness to Inclusion, developed in collaboration with IT4Change. A background in journalism fosters my passion for community engagement and institutional networking in order to expose social problems and catalyze solutions around them.