Andrea Medrado is a lecturer at the School of Media and Communication of the University of Westminster (UK) where she teaches for Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses. Prior to this, she worked as a Tenured Assistant Professor at the Postgraduate Programme in Media and Everyday life and at the Social Communication Department of Federal Fluminense University (Brazil). She worked as the Co-Investigator for the eVoices Network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC UK), analysing different uses of digital technologies and art-ivism (art + activism) to fight marginalisation in countries of the Global South. She is currently the Vice President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Her research interests include mediactivism; community and alternative media; South-to-South communication flows; media and favelas; ethnographic approaches; and social media, visibility, and human rights. In addition to her academic career, Andrea also has extensive experience as a creative writer for political campaigns.