Fernanda Glaser, PhD

Fernanda Glaser received a degree in psychology from the University of Santiago. After earning her degree, she worked in rural communities of northern Chile on issues of gender, mental health, and rural women’s access to land. In 2008, she was granted a scholarship by the Fulbright Commission to travel to the U.S. to earn her doctorate in the global gender studies program at SUNY, Buffalo. During her stay in the U.S., she researched the image of poet Gabriela Mistral and its relationship with the political and visual culture of Chile.

Dr. Glaser has developed her career around community organizing, feminist approaches to knowledge, human rights, and how these ideas intersect. She has served as a social scientist at the National Human Rights Institution in Chile, working to protect and educate the populace about human rights. Later, she took the position of regional secretary for the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, where she worked to further the cause of gender justice in the Coquimbo region of Chile. From 2016 to 2020, she worked with the IHP Human Rights program as a local faculty, while she also published academic papers and books, contributed to important Latin American organizations like FLACSO, and taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on feminist theory. As a feminist activist and a community organizer, she has worked with very diverse groups, including feminist grassroots organizations, academic institutions, political activists, indigenous communities, and with various levels of state power, from police officials to politicians.  

Education

• PhD, Global Gender Studies, University at Buffalo
• BS, Community Psychology, University of Santiago