Alejandro Campos-Garcia

Alejandro Campos-Garcia (he/his/him) is the associate director of Human Rights and Accessibility at Royal Roads University.

Alejandro has a PhD in Sociology from York University. He has drawn on his training as a researcher, policy analyst and educator to develop expertise in equity diversity and inclusion in post-secondary education. 

Since the early 2000s, Alejandro has devoted his scholarship to studying human rights regimes and policy and normative developments in domestic and international arenas. Most of his academic publications analyze the design and function of international and domestic human rights institutions and regulations, their articulation in specific local policies and programs, and how social movements embrace or contest these developments. Alejandro also has more than fifteen years of university-level teaching experience on human rights-related topics. This has afforded him the opportunity to design curricula and innovative pedagogies and employ these tools to train diverse constituencies on related themes.

His passion for human rights and accessibility and the post-secondary sector led him to create Inclusion Diversity Equity Consulting in 2018, specializing in the advancement of human rights and accessibility in the post-secondary education sector. Between 2018 and early 2020, Alejandro conducted assessments focused on interculturalization, Indigenization and internationalization, and anti-discrimination, accommodation, barrier prevention and removal policies, governance systems, processes and organizational culture.  

In July 2020, Royal Roads hired Alejandro as the Equity Diversity and Inclusion Specialist. His primary responsibility was to support the advancement of initiatives in the workplace, designed to eliminate systemic barriers that impede the career advancement, recruitment, and retention of underrepresented groups at RRU. In this role, he was also tasked with defining the institution’s data collection strategy, translating analytics to develop concrete courses of action, and designing strategies to measure the impact of human rights and accessibility initiatives across the organization. 

In May 2021, Royal Roads’ Executive promoted Alejandro to Associate Director of Human Rights and Accessibility, the leading position in these areas at the university. His role includes overseeing the administrative, research and educational tasks, ensuring that Royal Roads University is a space for learning and work guided by equity, diversity, inclusion, and respect for human rights. In his role, Alejandro has championed the adoption and activation of capacity-building, communication, and data governance strategic plans and proposed a new system of governance to ensure the success and sustainability of the human rights and accessibility agenda. He has also developed the strategy for the organization of events and drafted baseline policies.  

Born in Havana, Alejandro is a person of African descent. He is a cisgender male and self-identifies as a person without a disability. As a person of African descent born in Latin America, his biography has been shaped by experiences of systemic and interpersonal discrimination. His intimate exposure to social injustice has underpinned his commitment to interrogating how identity and social status can inform exclusion and imagining compassionate and community-based paths for overcoming these issues.