Ms. Campos was born in Talavera de la Reina, a small town in Spain known for its artistic ceramics. She has worked as a psychologist in Mexico City, and as an artist she has had collective and individual exhibitions in Mexico, Spain, and the United States. Ms. Campos has painted more than thirty self-portraits as well as realistic oil portraits commissioned by clients, friends and family. She has conducted individual art therapy with children who have suffered sexual and physical abuse, resulting in a great sample of projective drawings and murals that she showed in a conference in 2005 at the Humanities Center at Harvard University.

In 2006, she consecutively guided four murals (“Learning to Share Spaces”) with students from the Hosmer, Cunniff, and Lowell Schools, in Watertown, MA. Art Escapers participated in this project with the help of undergraduate students from Harvard, as part of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard. In May 2008, Alicia offered her last conference, “Mexico, Poverty and Arts,” as a guest speaker for Homenaje Latino (Harvard undergraduate student association) at Cambridge, MA.

Ms. Campos taught Spanish Literature and Art in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard for several years.  Her main goal was to open students’ eyes to human rights in Latin America and make them understand the causes that motivate Latino people to move to the US. She believes that learning a language equals learning a new culture.

In 2009, she earned a grant from Medford Art Council of Massachusetts to guide several murals in Medford Public Schools in collaboration with Mexican educational institutions. In March 2009, she graduated from Harvard University after completing her master thesis: Arts for Social Awareness. She plans to continue with her work as a psychologist and artist-activist in the Tampa Bay area while opening her own business that will donate many pieces of art to benefit charity fundraisers and institutions that work with Mexican populations.

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