Meet Diana Alejandra Sánchez Romero, 2025 Fund for Latino Scholarship

Diana Alejandra Sánchez Romero is an assistant professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and holds a master’s degree in political science from Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). Her research focuses on corruption, elections, and democracy, with a particular interest in the impact of digital tools on community development and democratic governance. Beyond academia, Diana is an organizer of RLadies México, where she explores network analysis and package development while supporting the organization’s mission to promote gender diversity in the R community. The grant awarded by the APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship will support the quantitative and qualitative data collection for her project on computational propaganda in the Mexican judicial election.


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