Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa (Guadalajara, Mexico 1971), a black-mestiza Mexican woman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, is an award-winning researcher and inclusive educator with an academic career spanning seven universities and three continents. Her research focuses on intersectional everyday experiences of “race” and racism in Mexico and Latin America, anti-racism and academic activism, feminist theory, and the interconnections among beauty, emotions, and racism. Mónica is currently leading the design and development of a new actionable research institute: Global Racisms Institute for Social Transformation (GRIST) at the University of Cambridge. Results of her latest project, Latin American Anti-Racism in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era, on anti-racist practices and discourses in Latin America comparing experiences in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico, was published in 2022 in the book Against Racism: Organizing For Social Change in Latin America. In addition to her academic work - or rather, as an integral part of it -, Professor Moreno Figueroa co-founded in 2011 the first explicitly anti-racist organization in Mexico, the Collective to Eliminate Racism (COPERA), an anti-racist organization dedicated to making racism public in Mexico and with which she has co-developed the Collective Racial Healing (CRH) approach.