Valeria López Álvaro (Ecuador) holds an Academic Superior Degree in Music with a specialization in Piano (2008), a B.A. in History from Universidad Católica del Ecuador (2013 - Academic Scholarship), and an M.A. in Cultural Studies with a focus on Arts and Gender from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (2016), where she received an Academic Scholarship and her thesis was published as a book by the university. Between 2016 and 2018, she was a member of the Feminist Platform "Vivas Nos Queremos, Ni una Menos - Ecuador". She further pursued her education with a second M.A. in Education from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, awarded the Scholarship for Teachers committed to confronting the pandemic crisis. Valeria worked as a teacher of Latin American History, Foundations of Political Debate (secondary level), and Critical Pedagogies (higher education level) at INEPE from 2016 to 2021, where she also served as Coordinator of the Humanities Department and Member of the Board of Directors (INEPE, 2018 - 2021). Since 2022 in Germany, she has been a university-level instructor focusing on Latin American Feminisms, Critical Pedagogies, Decolonial Education, and Latin American History (EPiZ - BtE).
Since 2023, she has been pursuing her PhD studies at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies within the Philosophische Fakultät at Universität Tübingen (Germany). She was awarded the Scholarship Research Grants Doctoral Programmes in Germany by the DAAD for academic excellence. Since February 2024, she has been an associate member of the doctoral research group "Collocations- Constructing Interknowledges, Negotiating Proximities".