Theme: Awkward

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Universidad del Valle de México
Calz. de Tlalpan 3056, Ex-Hacienda Coapa
Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, 04980
Mexico

Brian Mora

Finance

I am a 27 year old Mexican. Passionate about music and food. In love with languages and numbers. I love traveling, meeting new people, debating and laughing. I studied economics two years in Mexico and two years in France. I work for the construction sector in the financial area. Currently I consider myself an extrovert with an entrepreneurial spirit and a heart in love. My priority in life is to be happy through a deep respect for time, my own and others.

Isaac Ayala

Magician and biologist

I'm a magician 24/7, in my free time I study biology Lover of neurosciences and microbiology laboratory worker Creator of "" Presto "" and active member of MI UNAM.

María Conejo

Artist and co-founder of Pussypedia

Visual artist graduated from the School of Design of the National Institute of Fine Arts, her main medium is drawing, and her work revolves around the representation of the human body. She has been a FONCA Fellow twice in the Young Creators program in 2014-15 and 2016-17. It was one of the 17 finalists in the physical illustrators category of the First Biennial of Illustration in Mexico.

Patricia Anaya

Founder of Misión Carácter México

Journalist and social researcher, through her company, Misión Carácter México, Paty promotes the formation of character and leadership, family strengthening and social prevention, through the creation of programs and contents, as well as the delivery of conferences and workshops. In addition, in the professional practice, she provides consulting in lie detection. In 22 years of experience she has been able to work in various fields such as companies, schools, communities, prisons, police, in Mexico and in other countries.

Pedro Kóminik

Artist

With 30 years of experience, Pedro Kóminik has performed with great success as an actor, singer and director. His work in the most important television channels, such as CNI Channel 40, Channel 2 of Televisa, and Channel 22 among others, as well as seasons and concerts in the most prestigious theaters, sustain him as a figure of the highest level. The success of his 6 albums as a soloist corroborates him as an essential artist.

Phi Requiem

Co-founder of the project #SeguridadDigital

Co-founder of the project #SeguridadDigital. He works to strengthen the digital security and privacy of journalists, collectives and activists in Latin America and the Caribbean. He studied computer science, is a developer and promotes the use of free technologies. Currently Mozilla Fellow 2018 and technological mercenary.

Pilar Montes de Oca

Director of Algarabia

She is a professional and vocation linguist and is also the director of Algarabía, an editorial company of content, language and cultural dissemination. She is author and compiler of several books such as: El Manual para escribir bien, De todo excepto feminismo, El Chingonario, Es que no me entiendes Lenguaje femenino vs lenguaje masculino, among many others. She is a specialist in the colloquial use of language, in the power that words have, in anthropological and daily life semiotic topics of and in conjunctural topics that have to do with the human being. She is convinced that culture is all that humans have done to survive, and that language is the only way that reflects and communicates it.

Zoe Mendelson

Journalist and co-founder of Pussypedia

Zoe writes and creates platforms about urbanism, emojis, data visualization, love, fungi, and various other things but everything can be understood as a prolonged tantrum against the nihilism of her generation. She has written for Fast Company, WIRED, Next City, and Slate. Her projects have come out in New York Times in Spanish, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed, CityLab, PBS and others.