Alejandro is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. His research examines community interactions with data infrastructures and their political and epistemic implications. His dissertation investigates how digital platforms for open-source AI development operate as infrastructure for data valuation, focusing on the platformization of data science and its role in reshaping community norms and data work practices. Thorugh this lense, he explores the broader implications for equitable and sustainable global knowledge production in open-source AI.

Grounding in Communication, Critical Data Studies, and Science and Technology Studies (STS), Alejandro employs mixed-methods approaches to analyze the sociotechnical organization of data work and the political significance of data artifcats. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Science, Technology & Human Values, and New Media & Society.

Alejandro holds a dual M.Sc./M.A. in Global Media and Communication from the London School of Economics and the University of Southern California. He earned his B.A. in Communication from the University of California, Davis, where he also studied abroad at Meiji Gakuin University's Global Studies program in Japan. In 2022, he served as a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Open Technology Fund in Washington, D.C.

As a scholar by day and a an artist by night, Alejandro finds balance and inspiration through breakin' (breakdancing), which he practices as both a creative outlet and a form of embodied scholarship.