Kara Andrade
Dr. Kara Andrade is an adjunct instructor in the Mass Communications department with over 20 years of experience. She has led journalism, media, social entrepreneurship, and public health projects in 25 countries, focusing on innovation adoption and untold stories to address democracy challenges.
She holds an M.J. from UC Berkeley and an M.A. and Ph.D. from American University’s School of Communication, specializing in media, technology, and social change. She co-founded HablaCentro Informatics NFP and LLC with her late husband, using citizen journalism to support communities during crises in Guatemala and the U.S.
Beyond academics and media, she is a certified death doula, deeply engaged in end-of-life care. Currently, she is pursuing an M.F.A. in nonfiction and poetry at Bennington College. She bikes and runs for fun and hikes with her fiercely protective German Shepherd, Oso.
Courses
Publications
Andrade, Kara. (forthcoming) “Insecurity, Digital Citizenship and New Forms of Participation in Guatemala’s Digital Landscape”: The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Latin American Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Andrade, Kara, Ernesto Castañeda, and Luis Rubén Díaz-Cepeda. "Interview with activist Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco." Interface: a journal for and about social movements 9.1 (2017): 590-600.
Castañeda, Ernesto, Luis Rúben Díaz Cepeda, and Kara Andrade. "Social movements in contemporary Mexico." Social Movements, 1768-2018. Routledge, 2019. 220-239.
Diaz-Cepeda, Luis Ruben, Ernesto Castañeda, and Kara Andrade. "Activists’ communication and mobilization tactics to find Ayotzinapa’s 43 disappeared students." Protest Public Relations. Routledge, 2018. 128-149.
Andrade, Kara. "WhatsApp Messaging and Murder In Mexico." Insurgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader (2020).
Andrade, Kara Alessandra. PlazaPública: Igniting an Innovative Model and Ecosystem of Online News in Guatemala. American University, 2023.
Andrade, K. (2015, August 20). The Life and Death of an Organizer in Guerrero, Mexico. Retrieved November 3, 2015, from https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/life-and-death-organizer-guerrero-mexico.
Andrade, K. (2015, August 20). La vida y muerte de un activista en Guerrero, México. Retrieved November 3, 2015, from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/la-vida-y-muerte-miguel-angel-jimenez_n_8010854.
Andrade, Kara. "The life and death of Miguel Angel Jiménez, organizer in Guerrero, Mexico." Washington, DC: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. (https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/life-and-death-miguel-angel-jimenez-organizer-guerrero-mexico) (2015).
Andrade, Kara. "Citizen Media: Mobile Phone Democracy." ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America, No 36 (2011): 36.
Andrade, Kara. "WhatsApp and murder in Mexico." Latino USA (2015).
“Over-The-Top Messaging Services and Privacy in Latin America” Accepted paper for Indiana University Center Graduate Student Conference “Access and Control: Resources and Technology in the Global South,” on March 3 - 5, 2016.
Andrade, K. (2011). DIGITAL ALTERNATIVES with a cause? (Vol. 3, p. 41045). Centre for Internet and Society.