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Profile dan Foto Camila Vallejo - Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling (born in Santiago, April 28, 1988) is a graduate student of geography and a leader of the student movement in Chile and the 2011 Chilean protests. She is a prominent member of the Communist Youth of Chile, and is the current president of the Student Federation of the University of Chile, being the second woman to hold this post, after Marisol Prado (1997–1998).
Vallejo is the daughter of Reinaldo Vallejo and Mariela Dowling, both former members of Chilean Communist Party and activists in the Chilean Resistance during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Vallejo lived her childhood between the communes of Macul and La Florida, and she studied in Colegio Raimapu, a Co-Ed private school in La Florida. In 2006, Vallejo entered the University of Chile to study geography. There, she started forming ties with leftist students and getting involved in politics, which led her to join the Chilean Communist Youth the next year. She was counselor of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh, Student Federation of the University of Chile) in 2008, and was chosen as president in 2010.
She has acquired public attention as a leading spokesperson and leader of the 2011 student protests in Chile, alongside other student leaders: Giorgio Jackson from the Student Federation of the Catholic University of Chile and Camilo Ballesteros from the Student Federation of the University of Santiago de Chile.
In August 2011, the Supreme Court of Chile ordered police protection for Camila Vallejo after she received death threats.
