Natasha Chity-Guevara

Natasha Chity-Guevara is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Hispanic Studies with a minor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to interning at the Dialogue with the Education Program in the Fall of 2021, Guevara worked as a part of the Galápagos Education and Research Alliance (GERA), a project that aims to promote scientific understanding in both the Galápagos and global community through partnerships with local leaders in order to address pressing issues where ecology, climate change, poverty, and educational inequality intersect. Currently, Guevara is a volunteer teaching assistant with the Puentes a las Artes program, an art literacy initiative cosponsored by the Barnes Foundation and Puentes de Salud in Philadelphia’s Latin-American community, and is also a research assistant with the “Dispossessions in the Americas” project at the University of Pennsylvania, working on the cultural, linguistic, and geographical mapping of indigenous groups in the Andean region from the colonial encounter to the present. She is fluent in English and Spanish, has working proficiency in French, and is currently learning Portuguese.