David holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, with a double concentration in Public Policy and Human Rights, and Labor, Immigration and Social Policy. He is also a graduate of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ Program in Strategic Corporate Research. A Peruvian native, he earned a Law degree from the Peruvian Catholic University. David has extensive experience working with private, public, academic and non-profit sectors. In the U.S., he has worked as a Human Rights Investigator for the City of Saint Paul, and more recently with the Minnesota Human Rights Department. He has also worked as an Immigrant Rights Campaigner for the international union UNITE-HERE. During his graduate studies in Minnesota, he received a Fellowship from the University Minnesota’s Human Rights Center, and a CURA Communiversity Graduate Assistantship, to develop community-based research and training programs to monitor labor and human rights conditions for Latinx immigrant workers in the Twin Cities. He has also been a visiting lecturer in the University of Minnesota Spanish Department ‘s course Service-Learning in the Chicano-Latino Communities. He was a board member of the Resource Center of the Americas, and has served as a consultant for labor unions, the Peruvian Ministry of Labor and the International Labor Organization (ILO). He teaches graduate level virtual and in-person courses on globalization, labor, immigration, trade, business and human rights at the Peruvian Catholic University. David enjoys mentoring emerging labor, immigration and human rights activists and practitioners. Lately, he is exploring the rights of nature and other non-person entities, as well as the connections between science fiction, new technologies, labor, immigration and human rights as tools for advancing social change, and learning from artists and authors from BIPOC and Latine backgrounds who are creating diverse “Futurisms”.
