Rafael Torruela

Rafael is a doctorate in Social and Personality Psychology from the Graduate Studies Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Scholarship by the National Institute on Drug Use (NIDA) from 2007 to 2011 to complete their pre- and post-doctoral studies on behavioral sciences in drug users at the National Development Research Institute (NDRI) in the city of NY.

Currently, he is the Executive Director of Intercambios Puerto Rico, a community-based organization that offers harm reduction services in the northeast of Puerto Rico and as director of the drug policy reform campaign, Descriminalizacion.org.

He has presented his research in several conferences, published multiple academic articles, participated as a member of the Ethics Review Board of the Center for Graduate Studies of CUNY, was awarded a scholarship by the Interdisciplinary Institute for Research and Training on Drug Abuse in the Hispanic population in the United States (IRTI) and is a member of the board of directors of the New York community-based organization, New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE).