Same-sex couples' rights, family rights for diverse family forms, queer theory, relational contract theory, and feminist theories' implications in private law and family law. Lesbian, gay and queer studies of family rights both in the domestic and international law sphere. Rights of persons with disabilities and the implementation of the UN Convention for persons with disabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Critically analyzing private autonomy, the economy of care, and the achievement of substantive legal equality for all expressions of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identities.

Juan is a gay, Colombian lawyer, university lecturer, and researcher who has actively worked as a practicing attorney before family courts in his country of origin claiming civil, economic, and constitutional rights for his clients. He was the beneficiary of a full scholarship to carry out a doctoral program in law in Bogota. His doctoral research critically explores the evolution of family rights for same-sex domestic partners and spouses in Colombia. He has experience in international law through international moot court competitions and the protection of children's rights and family rights in Europe and the Americas.

Before the Youth Coalition, Juan had his private practice in family, successions, and children's law in Colombia. He also worked as an associate for the family law team at a widely recognized local law firm in Bogota. He was a research assistant for Dean Robert Leckey at McGill Faculty of Law, and he is in charge of the courses of international family law and successions law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota.

Juan completed a Master of Laws at McGill University where he was the recipient of a Colfuturo Foundation Loan-Scholarship, a Leckey Grad Award, a Pearson - Public Policy GR Award and the funding provided by STP- Leckey – SSHRC. His area of research in his master's thesis was feminist and relational contract theories applied to marriage contracts commonly known as marital agreements or prenups. In his dissertation, he carried a feminist contractual analysis that exposed the vulnerabilities inside family relationships created by the mutability of prenups in the civil laws in Colombia, and the Canadian province of Quebec and Ontario.

Finally, he has been actively engaged in defending an LGBT agenda inside the Private Law Department at his Faculty of Law in Bogota. He is also conducting empirical research that involves networks of gay and lesbian activism in Colombia to emphasize their right in the legal research in his country and the region.

In his free time, Juan enjoys spending time with his friends and family. He loves traveling, exploring new places, and having long-lasting conversations about his topics of interest. He is passionate about gay, lesbian, and queer culture, literature, and the history of the fight for the recognition of their rights worldwide. He strongly defends that recognition should not come from hegemonic structures that translate institutions over queer subjects, instead change should arrive in the form of queer subjects themselves. Juan loves maple donuts, Colombian food, and working out outdoors or at the gym.