Draft:Glen Alberto Salazar

Glen Alberto Salazar born July 19, 1987, is a Mexican-American writer, linguist, and AI researcher.

Biography
Salazar was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to Mexican parents both from Jalisco. Since his father was an American resident, the family moved to the United States in 1992. After living in Los Angeles for a few months, the family moved up north to the San Francisco Bay Area, settling in the North Bay city of Santa Rosa, in the heart of Sonoma County. He attended Luther Burbank Elementary School, Lawrence Cook Middle School, Elsie Allen High School for 9th and 10th grades, and Santa Rosa High School for 11th and 12th grades. At Santa Rosa High School, he obtained the High School Senior Spanish Award, for excelling in AP Spanish and getting a 5 out of 5 from the AP Spanish Test. He attended Santa Rosa Junior College, obtaining associate degrees in Humanities, and Social & Behavioral Sciences, and a certificate in Drone Studies; he took courses in coding, web development, drone imaging, social media marketing, digital marketing. and entrepreneurship. While attending SRJC, he worked as a barista at the Sonoma Coffee Company for three years, and also worked as a student language lab assistant at the Modern & Classical Language Lab and a student tutor at the Tutorial Center for three years. On his free time, Glen was a judge for the Poetry Slam Competition held in various sites by the Sonoma County Library.

He was the winning recipient of the Henry Cardinaux Memorial Scholarship, after competing with over 300 applicants in writing an essay in French and conducting an interview in French. He studied abroad through the American Institute for Foreign Study in Paris, France. His host family lived in Paris's 14th Arrondissement, on Rue Raspail, near Montparnasse. After returning to California, he transferred to UC Berkeley, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in French Language & Literature. While at Berkeley, he worked as a Sales Manager at Gianno's, a men's designer suit store, and at Tops N Travel, a luggage, travel accessories, and hats specialty store. While also at Berkeley, in 2011, he wrote his first official work of fiction Le Petit Nomade, getting published in the multilingual student journal. In 2012, he started writing and publishing books through indie publishers, starting with Pistachio The Squirrel. After trying different jobs at Bank of America and the Superior Court of Sonoma County, he returned to SRJC to work in various roles such as Matriculation Technician, Student Success Technician, Social Media Coordinator Intern, and Administrative Assistant. He become a US Citizen in 2012. In 2018, he enrolled in a Master's Program at the University of San Francisco, finishing his thesis in 2022 and obtaining his Master's degree in International Studies in 2023. His thesis focused on the confluence of AI and populism during Brazil's 2018 elections, in which populist Jair Bolsonaro was catapulted to power due to the hegemonic sway of AI algorithms in the social media ecosystem. In 2020, he joined Chasing Unicorns as Talent Acquisition Partner, a startup helping students from non-traditional backgrounds land a job in tech. In 2021, he was promoted to Program Coordinator. Later that year, he joined Stingray as Program Coordinator, where he remained until January 2023.

Works

 * Le Petit Nomade
 * Pistachio the Squirrel
 * A Little Book of Haiku Poetry
 * El Pequeño Libro del Haiku
 * La Ardilla Pistacho
 * Pistache l'écureuil
 * Le Petit Livre du Haïku
 * El Pequeño Libro de Dulces Piropos de Amor
 * A Little Book of Persian Poetry
 * Splendid Azerbaijan: The History and Culture of the Land of Fire
 * Pistacchio lo Scoiattolo
 * Le più belle poesie d'amore
 * Rumi's Seeds
 * Rumi's Rosewater
 * California Haiku
 * El Corazón de Rumi