Alejandro Herrera

Alejandro Herrera was born and grew up in a traditional family of educators, entrepreneurs, and social justice activists in a northern neighborhood of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. He graduated from university in economics and went on to design social and environmental policy in his home country. He was awarded a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship, distinguished as the co-leader for the 2006-2007 cohort. In 2017, Alejandro moved to New Hampshire, where he has served as a board member to Project Home for asylum seekers and also to the Afghans Resettlement Program for Refugees, in Keene, NH. His life-long passion for education brought him to the World Language & Resources Center at Saint Anselm College and to the Well Middle School to teach Spanish, and in 2024 he moved to Vermont to work for the World Language & Culture Department at the Hartford High School. He is a member of the Vermont Educators of Color Network and is fascinated by the mountainous and rural landscape of Vermont. After school he delights practicing saxophone, skiing, or watching ice hockey games. He and his teenage son, Cris, love dogs, baseball, playing dominoes and pingpong. Jazz & bluegrass music are his favorite, and for dancing he loves any kind from contra-dance, salsa, bachata to reggae.