Alejandro is an MBA and PhD at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He researches communication and public opinion at the intersection of traditional and emerging media and is currently researching political discourse and propaganda in social media. His interests are e-Democracy, Digital Culture, Internet & Human Rights. Alejandro has over a decade of experience in the broadcast industry, serving as executive producer. He holds degrees in engineering and law. The App Date and Apuntes de Rabona Founding Partner.

• PhD in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Political Analysis and Information Media, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Alejandro is an MBA and PhD at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He researches communication and public opinion at the intersection of traditional and emerging media and is currently researching political discourse and propaganda in social media. His interests are e-Democracy, Digital Culture, Internet & Human Rights. Alejandro has over a decade of experience in the broadcast industry, serving as executive producer. He holds degrees in engineering and law. The App Date and Apuntes de Rabona Founding Partner.

• PhD in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Political Analysis and Information Media, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Katherina Edith Gallardo Córdova is a teacher and researcher, member of the National System of Researchers (SNI - Level 1). She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the National Pedagogical Institute of Peru, a master's degree in Educational Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a Doctorate in Innovation and Educational Technology from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Her doctoral dissertation dealt with an investigation titled Competency-Based Education: Proposal for an Evaluation Model Based on the Theory of Experts and Novices and Applied to Excel Learning. Within her teaching role, she teaches courses related to technology and innovation in education and learning assessment. Her lines of research revolve around issues related mainly to the evaluation of distance learning and education.

• Technology and Innovation in Education
• Learning Assessment
• Educational Leadership and Management

• Doctorate in Innovation and Educational Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Educational Psychology, UNAM
• Bachelor of Education, Instituto Pedagógico Nacional del Perú

• Gallardo, K. (2020). Competency-based assessment and the use of performance-based evaluation rubrics in higher education: Challenges towards the next decade. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 78(1), 61-79.
• Vargas-Mendoza, L., Gallardo-Córdova, K.E. y Gómez-Muñoz, J.L. (2019). A learning environment to stimulate the development of competencies for mechanical design. Global Journal of Engineering Education GJEE, 21(1), 84-90. Disponible en:
• Elizondo, J.M, Schunn, C. y Gallardo, K. (2019). Quality of Peer Feedback in relation to Instructional Design: A Comparative Study in Energy and Sustainability MOOCs. International Journal of Instruction, 12(1), 1025-1040.
• Alderete Martínez, A. y Gallardo Córdova, K.E. (2018). Evaluación del Desempeño y Auténtica en el Modelo por Competencias en Secundaria: Un Estudio Mixto. REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 16(3), 103-122.
• Rincón, E., Gallardo , K.E. & De la Fuente, J.M. (2018). Strengthening an educational innovation strategy: processes to improve gamification in Calculus course through performance assessment and meta-evaluation. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education 13(1), 1-11.

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Katherina Edith Gallardo Córdova is a teacher and researcher, member of the National System of Researchers (SNI - Level 1). She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the National Pedagogical Institute of Peru, a master's degree in Educational Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a Doctorate in Innovation and Educational Technology from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Her doctoral dissertation dealt with an investigation titled Competency-Based Education: Proposal for an Evaluation Model Based on the Theory of Experts and Novices and Applied to Excel Learning. Within her teaching role, she teaches courses related to technology and innovation in education and learning assessment. Her lines of research revolve around issues related mainly to the evaluation of distance learning and education.

• Technology and Innovation in Education
• Learning Assessment
• Educational Leadership and Management

• Doctorate in Innovation and Educational Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Educational Psychology, UNAM
• Bachelor of Education, Instituto Pedagógico Nacional del Perú

• Gallardo, K. (2020). Competency-based assessment and the use of performance-based evaluation rubrics in higher education: Challenges towards the next decade. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 78(1), 61-79.
• Vargas-Mendoza, L., Gallardo-Córdova, K.E. y Gómez-Muñoz, J.L. (2019). A learning environment to stimulate the development of competencies for mechanical design. Global Journal of Engineering Education GJEE, 21(1), 84-90. Disponible en:
• Elizondo, J.M, Schunn, C. y Gallardo, K. (2019). Quality of Peer Feedback in relation to Instructional Design: A Comparative Study in Energy and Sustainability MOOCs. International Journal of Instruction, 12(1), 1025-1040.
• Alderete Martínez, A. y Gallardo Córdova, K.E. (2018). Evaluación del Desempeño y Auténtica en el Modelo por Competencias en Secundaria: Un Estudio Mixto. REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 16(3), 103-122.
• Rincón, E., Gallardo , K.E. & De la Fuente, J.M. (2018). Strengthening an educational innovation strategy: processes to improve gamification in Calculus course through performance assessment and meta-evaluation. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education 13(1), 1-11.

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Dr. Luis Fernández Carril served as technical secretary in the Special Committee on Climate Change of the Senate of the Republic. He is also a researcher on international climate policy in the Climate Change Research Program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In addition, he is a professor of Environmental Philosophy and Ethics at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla Campus.

He obtained a doctorate in Philosophy of Science in May 2014 from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus with an honorable mention of excellence. He has published articles and lectured nationally and internationally at renowned venues such as Oxford University and UNESCO in Paris. His main lines of research are: International environmental governance, international climate negotiations, and the ethics of climate change.

• Communication, Signs, and Signification
• Ethics, Profession and Citizenship
• Ethics, Self and Society
• Ethics, sustainability and social responsibility
• Humanities in the Anthropocene
• Mexican Identity and Culture
• Philosophy and Contemporary Thought
• Philosophy of Science
• Social Responsibility and Citizenship

• Doctorate in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Bachelor of Language Science

• The performance of innovation systems for the cases of Mexico and Korea in the context of knowledge societes. 2016
• Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor. Environmental Science and Policy. 121:18-23. 2021
• Turbulent transformation: abrupt societal disruption and climate resilient development. Climate and Development. 13:467-474. 2021

Dr. Luis Fernández Carril served as technical secretary in the Special Committee on Climate Change of the Senate of the Republic. He is also a researcher on international climate policy in the Climate Change Research Program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In addition, he is a professor of Environmental Philosophy and Ethics at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla Campus.

He obtained a doctorate in Philosophy of Science in May 2014 from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus with an honorable mention of excellence. He has published articles and lectured nationally and internationally at renowned venues such as Oxford University and UNESCO in Paris. His main lines of research are: International environmental governance, international climate negotiations, and the ethics of climate change.

• Communication, Signs, and Signification
• Ethics, Profession and Citizenship
• Ethics, Self and Society
• Ethics, sustainability and social responsibility
• Humanities in the Anthropocene
• Mexican Identity and Culture
• Philosophy and Contemporary Thought
• Philosophy of Science
• Social Responsibility and Citizenship

• Doctorate in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Bachelor of Language Science

• The performance of innovation systems for the cases of Mexico and Korea in the context of knowledge societes. 2016
• Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor. Environmental Science and Policy. 121:18-23. 2021
• Turbulent transformation: abrupt societal disruption and climate resilient development. Climate and Development. 13:467-474. 2021

María de Alva has a degree in Spanish Letters from Tec de Monterrey and a doctorate in Humanistic Studies with a specialty in Literature. She also holds two master's degrees, one in Latin American Studies with a specialty in literature and history from the University of California, Los Angeles (1993) and another from the Tec de Monterrey in Education with a specialty in Humanities (2000). Between 1993 and 1995, she worked as a reporter for the newspapers Reforma and El Norte.

She held the position of director of the Spanish Department of the Eugenio Garza Sada del Tec High School (1998 to 2008) where she coordinated the National Academy of Spanish for the Tec system, the OBI Higher Level Spanish program within the Tec System and participated in study plans on two occasions. Since 2008 to date, she is an associate professor of various subjects of Literature in the Department of Humanistic Studies. In 2015 she was appointed director of the Hispanic Literature career. She es currently the leader of the Passion for Reading Prorgram in Montrrey REgion and editorial director of Campus Cultural Magazine.

She has also participated in various academic congresses at institutions such as Cornell University, the Colegio de México, UNAM, Brown University, University of Texas, El Paso, among others, and has research publications in the Mexican Literature Magazine of the University of Texas and Providence College's INTI Journal of Hispanic Literature.

She has three published novels, Through the window (Planeta 2005), Before oblivion (Conarte NL; 2011) and What the river keeps (Planeta 2016). The first two were finalists for the Fernando Lara Prize in Spain. She has given literary creation workshops at the Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo León and helped at the Writers' Meetings of CONARTE, N.L. and in 2020 obtained the scholarship from the N.L. Creators System that this institution gives.

• Literary Criticism Seminar I
• Modern and contemporary Spanish literature
• Cinema, Literature and culture
• Introduction to the LLE career
• Introduction to professional life
• Literature and power in Latin America
• Cultural imaginaries of Mexico
• The myths that inhabit us: from Prometheus to Marvel

• PhD in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Latin American Studies, UCLA
• Master in Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Bachelor of Spanish Letters, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Silence writing: Memory and resistance in Sylvia Molloy's novel, In prison brief. Journal of Hispanic Literature Inti. University of Connecticut (2012).
• Diario del Dolor de María Luisa Puga: pain threshold and temporal rupture in the Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2011.
• The boredom and violence in the destruction of space and society in three Mexican storytellers: Fabio Morábito, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Juan Villoro in Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2009.
• Narrating in front of the camera: reconstruction of historical relativity through a narration in the present in Bitter Wind by Beatriz Rivas in the Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2007.
• Memory and city: Reconstruction of identity through space and neo-baroque structure in And the land tremble at its centers by Gonzalo Celorio in Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2004.

Two times Finalist in the Fernando Lara Novel Award in Spain (2004 and 2009).

María de Alva has a degree in Spanish Letters from Tec de Monterrey and a doctorate in Humanistic Studies with a specialty in Literature. She also holds two master's degrees, one in Latin American Studies with a specialty in literature and history from the University of California, Los Angeles (1993) and another from the Tec de Monterrey in Education with a specialty in Humanities (2000). Between 1993 and 1995, she worked as a reporter for the newspapers Reforma and El Norte.

She held the position of director of the Spanish Department of the Eugenio Garza Sada del Tec High School (1998 to 2008) where she coordinated the National Academy of Spanish for the Tec system, the OBI Higher Level Spanish program within the Tec System and participated in study plans on two occasions. Since 2008 to date, she is an associate professor of various subjects of Literature in the Department of Humanistic Studies. In 2015 she was appointed director of the Hispanic Literature career. She es currently the leader of the Passion for Reading Prorgram in Montrrey REgion and editorial director of Campus Cultural Magazine.

She has also participated in various academic congresses at institutions such as Cornell University, the Colegio de México, UNAM, Brown University, University of Texas, El Paso, among others, and has research publications in the Mexican Literature Magazine of the University of Texas and Providence College's INTI Journal of Hispanic Literature.

She has three published novels, Through the window (Planeta 2005), Before oblivion (Conarte NL; 2011) and What the river keeps (Planeta 2016). The first two were finalists for the Fernando Lara Prize in Spain. She has given literary creation workshops at the Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo León and helped at the Writers' Meetings of CONARTE, N.L. and in 2020 obtained the scholarship from the N.L. Creators System that this institution gives.

• Literary Criticism Seminar I
• Modern and contemporary Spanish literature
• Cinema, Literature and culture
• Introduction to the LLE career
• Introduction to professional life
• Literature and power in Latin America
• Cultural imaginaries of Mexico
• The myths that inhabit us: from Prometheus to Marvel

• PhD in Humanistic Studies, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Master in Latin American Studies, UCLA
• Master in Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Bachelor of Spanish Letters, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Silence writing: Memory and resistance in Sylvia Molloy's novel, In prison brief. Journal of Hispanic Literature Inti. University of Connecticut (2012).
• Diario del Dolor de María Luisa Puga: pain threshold and temporal rupture in the Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2011.
• The boredom and violence in the destruction of space and society in three Mexican storytellers: Fabio Morábito, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Juan Villoro in Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2009.
• Narrating in front of the camera: reconstruction of historical relativity through a narration in the present in Bitter Wind by Beatriz Rivas in the Mexican Journal of Contemporary Literature, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2007.
• Memory and city: Reconstruction of identity through space and neo-baroque structure in And the land tremble at its centers by Gonzalo Celorio in Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas, El Paso. July- September 2004.

Two times Finalist in the Fernando Lara Novel Award in Spain (2004 and 2009).