Polly Lauer

Polly Lauer is a doctoral student studying Latin American History. With a focus on Guatemala, she researches indigenous campesino community radio, government repression of indigenous media, and broadcaster resistance in the Cold War era. Broadly speaking, she is interested in indigenous identity, human rights, and grassroots mobilization in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America. She graduated with a B.A. in History and Latin American Studies from the College of William & Mary in 2017. Between graduating and beginning graduate school, she worked with the NGO ‘Cultural Agents’ at Harvard.