Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling

Biography
Vallejo is the daughter of Reinaldo Vallejo and Mariela Dowling, both 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 middle and upper middle class 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 Fech in 2008, and was chosen as its president in November 2010, becoming only the second woman to hold this post in the 105-year history of the student union.