Gabriela Mejan holds a BA in Latin American literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana, an MA in children’s literature from Roehampton University, and a PhD in visual culture from King’s College London. She has taught courses on historical fiction at KCL. Dr.
Mejan combines her scholarly research with extensive work experience serving the cultural insight needs and implementing digital strategies for global technology companies, new media agencies, and studios in the creative industries. She is the co-founder of Cerebro Urbano (Urban Brain), a foundation formed by a group of expert consultants in higher education, financial inclusion, health, urban planning, and public policy, and works assessing both domestic and foreign organizations interested in implementing projects that contribute to Mexico's development in these areas of counseling. Her areas of interest and research include Latin American literature; visual culture; graphic narratives; comic books; children’s and young adult fiction; borders, frontiers and displacement of cultural icons; and civic technologies, innovation, and visual storytelling to prompt behavior change.
