Flavio Bravo

As of September 2018, Bravo’s LinkedIn page said he was pursuing a master’s degree in Migration Studies at the University of San Francisco (USFCA), slated to graduate in 2019.

In 2016, he graduated from Loyola, with a bachelor’s degree in the Philosophy of Social Justice, Political Science and Latin American Studies.

Also as of September 2018,  Bravo’s LinkedIn said he became a Resident Minister in July 2018 at the University Ministry at USFCA, assisting students “of all faith traditions better understand the importance of engaging in interfaith dialogue through a wide variety of events, programs, and service opportunities.”

Bravo served as SGLC President of Loyola from April 2014-April 2015 and served as SGLC Chief Justice from April 2015 until some unknown date in 2016.

BDS Activism

In 2015, as student government president, Bravo signed and endorsed a 2015 Loyola Divestment resolution titled: “Divestment from Companies Profiting from the Illegal Occupation of the Palestinian Territory To ensure adherence to Loyola’s University Chicago’s Socially Responsible Investment Policy.”

The resolution resolved to urge the Loyola’s Chief Investment Office to collaborate with “students, faculty and staff” and to divest from “corporations profiting from human rights violations committed against the Palestinian people.”

The resolution invoked the 2005 Palestine civil society call for BDS, and quoted media outlet Al Jazeera, claiming, among other things that “Israel had been buying and ‘weaponizing’ Caterpillar bulldozers then using them to demolish Palestinian homes, build settlements and the separation wall, clear land to build Jewish-only roads, uproot olive and fruit trees, and carry out military operation. [sic]”

The resolution, which was the third such proposed in as many years, passed on March 24, 2015, after an initial tie vote. In response to the resolution, Loyola University President Michael J. Garanzini wrote an open letter, titled “Endorsing a Community of Dialogue,” to the student body.

Garanzini’s letter decried the divestment resolution as a divisive, harmful and ineffective way to conduct discourse about the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Bravo responded to the president Garanzini’s statement by penning an open letter affirming his commitment to the divestment measure and asserting his pride at having officially endorsed it.