Lissette Aliaga Linares

Aliaga-Linares's research interests include urban poverty, segregation, migration and informal economies in Latin America and the United States. She has studied street vending in a number of Latin American cities, including Bogotá, Lima, and Santiago de Chile, and has collaborated with grassroots organizations working with day laborers and immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States. Aliaga-Linares has contributed to many community-based research projects. Prior to her arrival in the United States, she was a community-based researcher for the NGO, Alternativa, in Lima-Peru. During her graduate studies in Austin, Texas, she assisted the Workers Defense Project with the collection of information about day laborer's hiring practices to advocate for the 2005 anti-soliciting bill. Aliaga-Linares has also served as a consultant to various development agencies such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the International Labor Organization. She is also actively collaborating with the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), and global advocacy network supporting informal workers labor rights.