Hugo Santiago Vazquez

Santiago is a post-graduate student at St. Antony's College. He was a recipient of the Bill & Melinda Gates Millennium Scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. After college, he worked as a paralegal to the chief legal officer of the law firm Lambda Legal. Santiago's most proud accomplishment in the field of law was acquiring an IR-5 visa for his immigrant mother to stay in the United States and his biggest failure was the inability to prevent the deportation of his immigrant father to Mexico. These life events demonstrated to him the best, and worst, outcomes the United States government can provide to citizens of other nations.

At the University of Oxford, he plans to tailor his MPhil course to prepare himself for an MBA/JD program by cementing a foundation in economic, quantitative, and theoretical approaches to policy-making between the U.S. and Latin America. His research interests include: litigation, taxation, LGBTQ+ rights, and (international) estate-planning. While he looks forward to his annual trip to Rio de Janeiro, he considers his home to be the community of Berkeley, California.

He is originally from Pico Union, Los Angeles.