Alejandro Beas Murillo

Alejandro Beas Murillo (he/him) is an educator and doctoral candidate in the English program at UMass Amherst. He earned a BA in English and an MA in American Studies from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in his home country of Spain, where he also worked as a high school and language academy teacher. Before joining UMass, he was a Spanish Teaching Assistant at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Alejandro is also a Writing professor at Thrive Scholars, an organization that supports students of color from immigrant and/or working class backgrounds prior to and during their college experience.