Bios: IPJ Staff

Erika Lopez, M.A., is the Program Officer for the Women PeaceMakers Program at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) at the University of San Diego. She has extensive experience aiding persons who arrive in the United States seeking asylum from torture and persecution in their home countries. She has also worked with trafficked women and women’s rights issues in South America and has experience organizing international human rights conferences in Brazil. Lopez is a graduate of the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she received her Masters in International Relations after completing her Bachelors in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English and proficient in German, French and Italian. Lopez is also an active member of various cultural organizations in San Diego whose aim is to foster greater international understanding and awareness in the local community.

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