Alexander Aldarondo Jiménez is an educator, Janzu water therapist, paramotor pilot, certified freediver, Thai massage facilitator, and INELDA-trained end-of-life doula. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he is the founder and director of AMORir, Puerto Rico’s first end-of-life doula project, which focuses on educating, preparing, and accompanying people at the end of life, as well as on organizing, training, and promoting death doulas throughout the archipelago. Since 2022, Alex has been accompanying people through end-of-life planning, illness, loss, death, and grief, and has facilitated workshops and community-centered educational spaces where we can learn how to navigate life and death. He feels a deep commitment to promoting a cultural shift through which we can normalize, humanize, and generate a positive attitude toward death.
“I’m brought here by a deep commitment to life, and to relating to it from truth and freedom in their purest forms. I feel an endless drive to discover myself, to help others do the same, and to create safe spaces where people feel they can be the most raw and authentic version of themselves at all moments of their lives, especially at their death.”
Alexander studied liberal arts and education in California and Massachusetts. He is cofounder and adviser for the Latin American region of the Agile Learning Centers Network, where he supports education initiatives based on self-direction, intentional community practices, regenerative cultures, and the activation of collective intelligence. He has more than 15 years of experience working in education and human development, working in schools and learning communities in the United States, Japan, China, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Alex has dedicated himself to researching, implementing, and promoting self-directed, community-centered, liberating education models and practices.