Tatiana Telles

Tatiana Telles

2021 Ricardo Salinas Scholar, Ricardo Salinas Scholarship

Tatiana Telles is a feminist, working to empower more equal and diverse communities by bridging the gap between public policy and technology.

Tatiana Telles is a feminist, working to empower more equal and diverse communities by bridging the gap between public policy and technology. Telles has a degree in International Relations from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), post graduate certificate in Public Policies and Gender from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Mexico).

She has facilitated workshops on Human Rights, Construction of Equality, Prevention of School Bullying and Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy with a focus on New Masculinities for the National Union of Education Workers in Quintana Roo and Nuevo León, for the State Human Rights Commission of Sonora and for the Sinaloa Institute of Women. With PuentechLab she has designed capability training in Gender and Technology for the National Democratic Institute.

Tatiana is  experienced in International Projects as a volunteer in Gender Projects in Lahore, Pakistan with Citizens Commission for Human Development, where I worked in a program funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and in Sustainable Development with My World, My Choice, sponsored by Ufone and Kraft Food. She has worked as Deputy Director of Gender Compliance for the National Human Rights Commission, where she researched and drafted national reports on the equality situation in the country. Formerly, she was the Coordinator of International Relations for Senator Diva Gastélum and Deputy Manager of Professionalization and Development at INFONAVIT.

Currently, she mentors international students with an interest in Feminist Foreign Policy for the Observatorio Mexicano de Política Exterior Feminista. She has participated in National Television in SIN FILTRO, at Foro TV, as well as numerous interviews for Local News in Sinaloa, and written for Letras Libres, El Universal and Foreign Affairs Latin America.  Selected to participate in Socrates Summer Seminars: De-Institutionalizing Racism: How Did We Get Here / Where Are We Going?