Laura Alvarez

Laura Alvarez

I’m a writer, poet, traveler, seeker, and sustainability advocate, whose preferred method of communication has always been to write. For a few years I spent some time writing as an academic and completed an M.A. in Human Geography from Indiana University. As part of my Master’s, I wrote the thesis Space, Place, and Hegemony among Young Adults in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, which addresses the role socio-economic identity plays in the choices a young adult makes to use public and private spaces in a Latin American city. These days I am trying to find balance between working at an energy efficiency consulting firm and writing more poetry, a memoir, or whatever is inside of me that needs to be written and shared. 2015 Retreat Intern