Damián Andrada was born in 1986 in Buenos Aires and currently lives with his family in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Damián is a Senior Technician in Journalism at the TEA School and has a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Del Salvador (USAL). Later he graduated with a Master’s in Political Science and Sociology from FLACSO Argentina and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
For more than 10 years, he has dedicated himself to teaching journalism, communication, epistemology, and history in institutions such as FLACSO Argentina, the Universidad Del Salvador, the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino, the Instituto de Formación Técnica Superior N°6 and the Bachillerato Popular. Raymundo Gleyzer. He is also the compiler of the book “Towards an indigenous journalism” and coordinator of the Research Group “Indigenous Peoples, State, and Power” (PIEP).

After moving to the Plurinational State of Bolivia in 2019, he became the General Editor of Debates Indígenas. This is a digital magazine that addresses the struggles, conquests, and problems of indigenous peoples from the perspective of the territories and communities, the knowledge of academia, and the commitment to activism. Three years later, he launched the Program for Indigenous and Environmental Journalism (PPIA) with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, the ORE Organization, and the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.