About

Alejandra (Ale) Mejía is the Chief Editor of Migrant Roots Media, an independent media platform that centers the analyses of migrants and children of migrants to unearth the root causes of global migration. Her politics and devotion to migrant justice are largely informed by being the daughter of a single, working-class immigrant mother. She graduated from Williams College with a degree in Comparative Literature and a concentration in Latinx studies and is currently an Assistant Editor at Duke University Press, where she acquires books in Latinx history. Ale also occassionally edits publications for Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.