Dr. Eliud Torres Velázquez is a community educator and psychologist trained at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He works as a research professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Xochimilco Campus, Mexico City. He earned a Master’s degree in Social Psychology and a Ph.D. in Rural Development from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) and completed postdoctoral research at the Institute for Educational Research at the University of Veracruz. He belongs to the National System of Researchers (Level I).

His research focuses on childhood and youth, intergenerational relations, children’s rights perspectives, children’s political participation, collaborative methodologies for decolonization, and community psychosocial health.

He participates in the CLACSO Working Group on Critical Studies of Rural Development. He is also a member of the Latin American Network for Research and Reflection with Children and Youth (REIR) and the Ixtlamatiliztli Psychologists’ Collective. He collaborates with the Francisco Villa Popular Organization of the Independent Left in Mexico City and with Melel Xojobal in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.

At Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Xochimilco Campus, he teaches in the Bachelor’s Program in Psychology, the Master’s Program in Social Psychology of Groups and Institutions, and the Graduate Program in Rural Development. He also contributes to the Academic Area “Subjectivity and Social Processes” within the Department of Education and Communication. His current research projects include “Childhood and Adolescence in Welfare and Protection Systems” and “Impacts of Orphanhood Due to Femicide on Children and Adolescents in Mexico City: A Rights-Based Approach.”