Author Aleszu Bajak Aleszu Bajak, a freelance journalist based in Boston, grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. He now teaches journalism at Northeastern University and runs the blog LatinAmericanScience.org. In 2014, he was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at M.I.T. Aleszu Bajak's Latest Articles Guardian of the Cotton-top By Aleszu Bajak ● Feature ● February 7, 2017 The landscape architect who became the unlikely steward of Colombia’s critically endangered one-pound monkey