Federico Pita is a Politics graduate from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He is co-founder and President of the African Diaspora of Argentina (DIAFAR) organization. His career focuses on issues of race, racism, racial inequality and Afro-descendants. In the public sphere, he has promoted reparation policies for the Afro-Argentine community, as creator and Director of the Commission for the Historical Recognition of the Afro-Argentine Community at the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI), and as Coordinator of the National Programme on Afro-descendants and Human Rights at the Secretariat of Human Rights of the Nation. In the academic field, he lectures on the Introduction to History and Afro-diasporic Thought course at the Universidad Nacional de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo and coordinates the working group Civilizing Crisis, Reconfigurations of Racism, Afro-Latin American Social Movements at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). He is also the editor of the Negrx segment of Página/12, the first anti-racist space in the Argentine print press. He also directs El Afroargentino, the first Afro-Argentine publication of the 21st century. He has participated as a speaker in international forums on issues of reparations, Afro-descendants, race and racism. His commitment and expertise make him an influential voice in the fight for the rights of Afro-descendant communities in Argentina and Latin America.