Adrián Aldaba, a Chicago native, is a senior pursuing his degree in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and serves as the Young Ambassadors Alumni Program Liaison for the Smithsonian Latino Center.

The Young Ambassadors Alumni Program (YAAP), now in its third year, creates a community of emerging Latino leaders and life-long learners by providing opportunities for academic and professional enhancement and fostering exposure and access to various professionals via the Smithsonian Institution and its resources. Aldaba has been affiliated with the Smithsonian Latino Center as a participant of the Young Ambassadors Program in 2008, Minority Intern in 2009, and educational contractor from 2009 to the present.

Aldaba is also a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow conducting research projects on the study of women, gender, and sexuality in Franco-Maghreb (Beur) and US Latino literature. He has presented work on the abjection of homosexualidad in US Latino literature at Stanford University.

Aldaba actively promotes the Latino presence at Harvard as President emeritus of Fuerza Latina, Vice President of the Harvard Glee Club, and teaching civics in the Boston Public Schools.

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