Waleska Solorzano is a PhD candidate in Latin American studies. Her interdisciplinary research revolves around questions of aesthetics, domestic culture, migration, ontology, oral histories and testimonies, and the politics of representation. She examines how desires for familial belonging and the spatial dynamics of community-building proliferate within Venezuela and the diaspora through contemporary artistic practices and productions. 

Her dissertation shows how Venezuelan artists reimagine family and belonging across the diaspora, particularly in LGBTQ+ and minoritarian communities, highlighting how displaced populations survive amidst a constellation of crises.