Silvia Téliz

Silvia is interested in the visual representation of social identity, with a special focus on Latin American media and its influence on political attitudes and behaviors.

Silvia uses computational social science methods to study the visual representation of social identity in political communication, with a focus in the Latin American region. She is interested in exploring political actors’ usage of group appeals in visual media and voters’ group-based political preferences.
 
Silvia was born and raised in Mexico City. She obtained a B.A. degree in Communication from Universidad Panamericana. After graduating college in 2018, she collaborated in numerous research consulting projects, mainly on gender and transparency issues. She worked in evaluating public policy programs for Mexican institutions such as the National Institute for Information Access and the National Judiciary. In 2021, she became a Fulbright-García Robles grantee.