Alejandro is a lawyer from the University of Medellín and a specialist in constitutional law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He is currently doing an LLM  in human rights at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where he is also  teaching assistant  for a course on Colombian Constitutional Law.

He has served as a litigant in the areas of extracontractual liability of the State for serious human rights violations, environmental law and protection of collective rights. He currently works as a researcher at Dejusticia in the area of Transitional Justice.