A graphic communication designer from the UAM, and a publishing production specialist from Edinba, she studied a Master of Publishing sponsored by the Charles III University of Madrid, University of Alicante, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Santillana Publishing Company. She has undertaken ongoing professional development in the areas of art, design, typography, and book history. She has explored the fields of book binding, calligraphy, engravings, illustration, posters, and artists’ books. She has freelanced for clients such as the Toluca Fine Arts Museum, the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico, the Libros de México magazine, Monterrey Technological Institute, El Colegio de México, and Random House Mondadori, among others. Alejandra managed the design department at the Artes de México publishing house for eight years, directing publication art (Magazine-book Artes de México and nine collections of art books, photographic, children’s and academic books, among others), coordinating exhibitions, designing and setting up stands. Her work is well recognized and has received several awards, including: the Caniem Publishing Art Award, Premio a! Diseño, Quorum Prize, CLAP International Design Prize, and the Mexican National Biennial Design Award. She co-founded Ahuehuete Oficio de libros.

A graduate of graphic design and communication specializing in publishing design from the Faculty of Arts and Design at the UNAM. In 2015, she went on an academic exchange to the Universidad Antonio Nariño in Colombia.  Upon returning to Mexico, she joined the publishing team at Artes de México, where she worked for two years in the design department. With her inclination towards design research, she completed the art anthropology diploma at the Center of Research and Tertiary Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in 2017, while concurrently working on a graphical investigation project on Ayotzinapa. She is currently studying a Visual Culture and Gender Seminar at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC). She co-founded Ahuehuete Oficio de libros.

Actuario por la facultad de ciencias, con estudios de maestría en sistemas en lafFacultad de ingeniería de la UNAM, universidad donde es subdirector de Revistas Académicas y Publicaciones Digitales en la Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial, secretario técnico del Consejo de Publicaciones Académicas y Arbitradas; coordinador general de la Red de Directores y Editores de Revistas Académicas y Arbitradas; coordinador técnico del Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal, Latindex; y profesor del Colegio de Bibliotecología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

Historiador, teólogo social y escritor. Ilustrador, encuadernador, guionista y consultor de editoriales. Funcionario de la Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial de la UNAM. Editorialista del programa de radio Interlínea. Cultura Editorial de UAM. Miembro de los comités editoriales de Pequeños Grandes Ensayos de la UNAM y de Quehacer Editorial de Ediciones del Ermitaño. Entre otras publicaciones, es autor del libro La cultura editorial universitaria. Fue editor de Leer en común del Programa Nacional Salas de Lectura. Fundó el Centro de Información Libros UNAM. Es miembro del Instituto del Libro y la Lectura y del grupo La Tertulia Editorial.

He graduated with a degree in Language and Literature from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and studied a master’s degree in Applied Sciences and Arts, with a major in television. He coordinated the book selection department for children and young adults of the Banco del Libro (Venezuela) and managed the magazine Parapara. He has given talks and workshops in different countries in Latin America and in universities in Europe and Asia. He has written peer-reviewed articles for academic publications, as well as “Un Panorama de la ilustración de libros para niños en América Latina” for the French magazine Hors Cadre and an essay about magic realism in Latin American children’s literature included in a volume about cultural studies published by Routledge. He wrote the essay “Leer y mirar el libro álbum: ¿Un género en construcción? (2007) and textbooks for children. He also wrote Panorama Breve de la Literatura Infantil en Venezuela (2013) and Temas de Literatura infantil (2014). He is a theorist and researcher in children’s literature. He was a guest professor of the Gretel master’s degree in Children’s Literature and was author and professor of the CERLALC virtual course on creative writing. He received a grant from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Germany) to develop research about printing processes in old books for children. He was on the judging panel of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, and the Bologna Raggazi Award of the Catálogo Iberoamericana Ilustra, and the Bratislava Illustration Biennial. He participated in the fellowship program of the Shanghai Children’s Book Fair and was a guest speaker at the Beijing Reading Festival. He is director of the Revista Barataria for Latin America children’s literature. He is currently Head of Strategic Relations of Editorial Norma and develops research proposals as an independent scholar.