Alfredo Barba

Alfredo Barba is Y4PT’s Lead Graphic Designer. He created the actual Y4PT logo and all the graphics for each Campaign, project and event of Y4PT. Alfredo has started volunteering at the very beginning of the Y4PT adventure, and now he is one of the Co-Founders. He works as a freelance graphic designer and photographer. He obtained his bachelor degree with honors in Industrial Designing 2001 and has a diploma in Graphic Design. During his studies, he participated in an academic exchange program to Universidad del Bio-Bio in Concepción, Chile. Since his first participation in the first Youth Parliament in Guadalajara in 2007, Alfred has been proactive in creating the cohesion among all the youth willing to generate what Y4PT is actually. Alfredo was an active member, writer and contributor of “Una Ciudad Alterna”, a project aiming to be a space of opinion and reflection on various issues affecting Guadalajara, such as transit, politics, urban mobility, ecology, art, design and architecture. “Una Ciudad Alterna” was listed as a Prominent Civic Organization by Plataforma Urbana, an internationally recognized blog about urban planning in Chile. In 2009, along with María Camarena and Juan Pablo Guerrero, and for the fist time they brought the voice of Y4PT to the “Sustainable Urban Mobility in Guadalajara Workshop”, where they discussed issues and actions to be taken to promote mobility and improvement of the historic downtown of Guadalajara.

He is an engaged volunteer in Mexico, and a passionate environmentalist, climber, hiker, skier and horse rider; having the credit of creating his own outdoors travel club, IceAndSea, to bring the Youth to discover mountains and nature all over Mexico, USA, South America and Europe.