About

Vaclav Masek is a Masters student at NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). As a 2018 Gallatin Global Fellow in Urban Practice in Madrid, Vaclav will collaborate with Servicio Doméstico Activo (SEDOAC), a community organization of domestic workers, most of which are migrant women from Latin America. He expects to conduct interviews with SEDOAC’s members and conduct research on the history of postwar migration of Latin Americans to Spain.

Last Spring, Vaclav completed his undergraduate degree also at NYU, where he pursued a triple-major in Sociology, Spanish, and Global Liberal Studies. As an undergraduate at NYU, Vaclav spent his freshman year abroad in London, where he volunteered as a teacher’s assistant in an inner-city elementary school with the Shine Trust. During his junior year in Buenos Aires, he interned for CIPPEC, a think-tank consulting for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Upon returning from Argentina, Vaclav was selected to participate in the 2016 Global Leadership Summit in Prague, themed on taking action on the European refugee crisis. His senior year culminated with a thesis concerning the transitional justice system in his home country of Guatemala. Upon graduating, Vaclav was selected as a 2017 Humanity in Action Fellow in its Warsaw Program. He is currently working on his master’s project, which focuses on Guatemala’s multiparty system after its return to democracy following a 36-year armed conflict.