Alejandro Sequeira is a graphic designer, photographer, visual artist, and researcher. He studied a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences at the University of the Republic. He is a researcher specialized on wild mushrooms, founder of the Fungizajes (International mycological gatherings in Montevideo) and the Facebook group "Hongos en Uruguay" (Mushrooms in Uruguay). He has been a speaker at several mycology congresses and gatherings in Uruguay and other countries. For almost two decades, he has been dedicated to disseminating knowledge about the kingdom of fungi, with an emphasis on wild species. He conducts intensive work through workshops and myco-trails to frame scientific knowledge about fungi within a broad cultural context, aiming to create a particular identity in teaching about the kingdom. He has held two photographic exhibitions about the country's fungi at the Open-Air Galleries of the Center of Photography in Montevideo. Together with the Clemente Estable Institute and with the collaboration of Dr. Mariana Cosse and Dr. Francisco Kuhar, he has initiated a project to identify wild species in Uruguay through DNA extraction, molecular, and phylogenetic analysis.