Ada Álvarez Conde

Ada M. Álvarez Conde was born on September 8, 1986. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, and a Master of Science in Communications from Florida International University. She has earned two doctorates, one in the History of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean from the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, and one in Christian Neurotheology. Since 2006, she has been an educator for peace. In that same year, she became the youngest novelist in Puerto Rico with the book, “Lo que no dije, sobre violencia.” She participated in the Córdova y Fernós internship, where she worked with Nancy Pelosi. Her past professional roles include reporter for Telemundo Nacional, editor at the Washington Hispanic, Communications Specialist for the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C., federal translator for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and professor at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, the Universidad Ana G. Méndez, the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, and the Police Academy. She also served as Director of the Senate's Commission on Women's Affairs on two occasions. An expert on violence prevention, she pioneered orientation programs in schools and advocated for the legislation that became Law 89-2015, which designated February as the “Month of Prevention and Alert for Dating Violence.” She has received various honors, including the Sor Isolina Ferré award and international recognition as one of the ten outstanding young people in the world by the JCI in 2015. In 2024, she published her third book, “Corazón Abierto,” an autobiography detailing her experience with the congenital heart condition Tetralogy of Fallot.