Tijuana native Víctor Clark Alfaro studied social anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and conducted doctoral studies in sociology from the University of California San Diego. He was a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) from 1981-1983 and has been a lecturer at San Diego State University since 1999. Clark is the founder and director of the Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos (Binational Center for Human Rights) in Tijuana. In addition, he has served as a counselor for the Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (Commission for the National Development of Indigenous Peoples). A former writer for the Pacific News Service and a columnist for La Opinión in Los Angeles, he is the author of Mixtecos en Frontera (Mixtecos on the Border) and Los Mixtecos, sus mujeres y el turismo (The Mixtecs: Their Women and Tourism), which was published by and received an award from the UABC.