Giada Ferrucci
Giada Ferrucci has a PhD in Media Studies from Western University (Canada), a Master’s degree in International Relations from Aarhus University (Denmark), and a Bachelor's degree in Economic Development and International Cooperation from the University of Florence (Italy). In 2017 and 2018, she worked in El Salvador as an intern for Asociación para el Desarrollo de El Salvador [Association for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES], and she first joined the team for the Surviving Memory project. As a dedicated researcher, Ferrucci’s contributions to the project as a PhD student included translating and transcribing testimonies, facilitating workshops, collaborating with the massacre mapping team, organizing our March 2023 mental health conference in Arcatao, and supporting partners through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant application process. Her dissertation analyzed the communication and advocacy strategies implemented by land and environmental defenders in Central America, organized in networks of resistance, who contrast the imposition of extractivism in their communities. As a postdoctoral scholar, she is focused on three projects: the environment as a memory medium in Postwar El Salvador, epistemologies inspired by the Salvadoran diaspora in Canada, and a pedagogy of solidarity based on North American examples. These projects collectively explore archival activism, environmental justice, diasporic identity, and solidarity practices, emphasizing community engagement and ethical research methodologies.