Maria Alejandra Salazar

Maria Alejandra Salazar is 1.5 generation immigrant from Lima, Peru. She is based in Chicago and has a background in community organizing and advocacy around immigrant and refugee rights. A graduate from Northwestern University, she is completing her Master of Divinity at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Her academic interests are at the intersection of spirituality, activism, and theory. She is passionate about theologies that center lived experience as sites of liberation and transformative healing. Maria Alejandra is part of the 2019 ARC Emerging Leaders fellowship cohort.