Afro-Caribbean thinker, writer, researcher and educator. She was born on the island of Ayiti, to give it its original name, specifically on the eastern side that bears the name of the Dominican Republic. A pioneer in decolonial feminism and a direct disciple of María Lugones. Director of the Caribbean Institute for Decolonial Thought and Research (INCAPID/GLEFAS) and founding member of the Latin American Group for Feminist Studies, Training and Action (GLEFAS). For more than 30 years she has been carrying out and promoting popular and community training processes for the strengthening of black, indigenous and marginalized communities, both locally and internationally. Together with a group of colleagues, she won the Berta Cáceres Research Award from CLACSO and received a Käte Hamburger fellowship for a research residency at CAPAS, at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2021-2022. She is the author of numerous essays and academic texts, as well as the editor of several key compilations of decolonial feminism such as Feminismo descolonial: Nuevos aportes teórico-metodológicos a más de una década (en la frontera, 2023, 2nd Ed.). Among her most recent publications are: Decolonial Feminism in Latin America: An Essential Anthology (Hypathia, 2022); Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges, co-edited with María Lugones and Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022); and De porqué es necesario un feminismo descolonial (Icaria, 2022).