Mariana Alegre

Mariana Alegre was born in Lima, Peru. She studied Law at PUCP and is MSc in City Design and Social Science (London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE). When studying her first Master in Human Rights, she decided to promote Urban Rights. She has been involved in several research projects and academic work, in particular about sustainable urban mobility, public spaces and urban renewal with social inclusion processes. Since 2010, Mariana is the Executive Director of Lima Cómo Vamos, a citizen observatory (www.limacomovamos.org) whose mission is to evaluate quality of life of the “limeños” and”chalacos” (Lima`s and Callao’s neighbors). On December 2014 and with the support of AVINA Foundation, she founded Occupy your Street (ocupatucalle.com) a strategy that seeks to develop more and better public spaces through participatory processes and promoting Citizens Urbanism. She is also a professor in the PUCP School of Management. Mariana’s research focuses on different urban phenomena, in particular, about sustainable urban mobility, public spaces and urban effervescence of citizen movements and urban disobedience. In addition, she leads Nodal: Urban Nodes of Latin America, from where Mariana seeks to contribute to training and empowering the new urban generation of Peru and the region to transform us into a system of sustainable cities. In her free time, Mariana writes opinion columns for Perú 21, she rides her bike and walks around her city.