Katia Chornik

Katia has extensive experience developing, managing and conducting research, public engagement and impact in the HE, public and cultural sectors. Her research explores intersections between culture, history, politics and society. She is the author of Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text (Routledge, 2015) and Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, with a prologue by Michelle Bachelet) and numerous academic and media articles. She is the founder and editor of the Cantos Cautivos (Captive Songs) public engagement project, documenting music and political imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile. Currently working as UNESCO Consultant on a human rights education project, she is also affiliated with Cambridge’s Centre of Latin American Studies. As a Latin American woman of mixed background and family history of forced migration, Katia has personal experience of a range of EDI matters.