David Orjuela is a teacher, teaching at Universidad Nacional de Jose C. Paz, where he is passionate about understanding students motivations, strengths, and ways of learning, as well as experimenting with various pedagogical approaches. He is currently working on Latin American literary and cultural criticism project which looks at promoting Spanish reading, analysis, and debate around written narrations from emerging authors from the Latin American continent. He is passionate about decentralized academic and institutionalized knowledge to a bigger, more plural community, as he believes this is the only way to use it as tool for social change. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Master degree in Discourse Analysis, and has good experience as Systems Analyst.