Afrocolombian scholar who holds a PhD of Sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Former Minister of National Education and Viceminister of Higher Education. 2023 Afrocolombian of the Year by Color de Colombia Foundation and El Espectador Newspaper. Former Director of the Center for Afrodiasporic Studies (CEAF) and professor of Sociology at Icesi University (2012-2022). Winner of the Martin Diskin award from LASA (Latin American Studies Association) for the best PhD dissertation that integrates activism and rigorous knowledge production (2014). Anthologist, author, and compiler of books such as Decolonizing worlds: Contributions of Black intellectuals to Colombian Social Thought (2017, CLACSO) (Original in Spanish), Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia. Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó (2017, Palgrave Macmillan), I Demand my Freedom: Black Women and their strategies of resistance in Nueva Granada, Venezuela and Cuba, 1700-1800 (2018, Editorial Universidad Icesi-Original in Spanish), and Race in Global Perspective an annotated bibliography in Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology.
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