Adrian López was born in the village of Olocuilta, El Salvador in 1965. He graduated from the Normal School of Teachers Ciudad Normal “Alberto Masferrer” at the age of 21. While studying education at the National University of El Salvador, he became involved with the struggle against human rights abuses during the worst years of the country’s armed conflict in 1987. As a student leader of the Department of Education, he became a political activist and the President of the Student Association for the Faculty of Sciences and Humanities. After being tortured and imprisoned, he fled the persecution of the repressive Salvadoran regime to seek political exile in Guatemala. While living in Guatemala, he worked as a teacher and social worker with street children through a UNICEF sponsored outreach program. He immigrated to Canada with his wife and children in 1990. He holds a Canadian college diploma in Social Work and is currently in his fourth year of a Bachelor degree in Social Work at a Canadian university.
