Pamela Paredes

Bachelor of Arts and Sciences of Communication with major in Audiovisual Communication

A creative soul and yoga teacher, Pamela was born and raised in Lima, also, she loves watching movies in foreign languages. Her experience on producing multiplatform content blends in with her love for teaching.

She has co-created short documentaries with a research team in Proyecto Sherezade, grant award winning project funded by Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP), this transmedia project meant to explore teaching and the process of doing ethnography beyond the written work. By exploring social sciences by storytelling, students were introduced to media language to portrait all different kind of concepts like masculinity, femineity, Bourdieu’s capital concepts, humor, and popular culture in Peru.
Later, she had the opportunity to extend her practice on pedagogy at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, were she received a scholarship to teach and study for two semesters. She tutored Spanish learners in different levels and facilitated activities in campus developing art workshops focused on intercultural learning. She has also taught at PUCP, as teaching assistant, developing writing tools for her students to help them improve their academic writing and to develop research projects about Communications Studies in Peru.

As content creator, she has great experience working in digital advertising with Peruvian brands. For her, working with multidisciplinary teams has made her become a better communicator when teaching and discussing about culture, identity, society, and global issues. Traveling has become her way to understand peoples’ reality, and yoga teaching has found a way in her routine to take care of mental health and physical body. She is very passionate about Peruvian history, traditions, and culinary knowledge that both her grandparents have inherit her from their regions of origin.