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Alejandra joins Heifer International’s Board of Directors as an At-Large director representing the North America region.
She is an architect by trade, and is currently a legal representative and founder of the San Isidro project, where she coordinates international courses of natural construction, perm culture, soil regeneration and reconstruction, environmental education for children, and alternative sustainable life styles. She also administers resources to maintain the Instituto de Educacion Integral Magdalena Cervantes A.C., which offers alternative education at the first level for low-income children. She is co-founder and member of Cosecha Sana, a group of producers that promotes the production and commercialization of organic products.
Since 1990, she has been a consultant of Perm cultural designs and a coordinator and instructor of international Perm cultural courses, natural construction and sustainable agriculture. She received a scholarship from the McArthur Foundation from 1994 to 1997, with the Madre Tierra, Madre Casa project (Women, Environment, and Self-Construction Housing). She has co-authored the book Sustainable Agriculture: An approach to the perm culture, and has written a manual on self-construction.
She has been a member of several organizations in her field, and was a founding member of Alternatives of Vital Habitats and Educative, and of Educative Services of Social Investigation. Within the architectural arena, she is a specialist in the construction and design environmentally friendly housing.
Alejandra graduated from the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla with a degree in Architecture, and won a national prize for her work in 1986.
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