Alexandra Aguilar Bellamy

Colloquium Organizer, Human Rights Program

She is a political scientist from the Department of Political and Social Sciences (FCPYS) at UNAM. She holds a master's degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex in England and is pursuing a PhD in Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at UNAM. In recent years, she completed a master's degree in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

She worked as senior advisor for the Ministry of Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) and later for the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL) where she designed and coordinated the National Survey of Migrant and Farm Workers and developed qualitative research to eradicate child labor in agriculture.

She has worked as a consultant for national and international organizations, designing and evaluating public policies and programs on children's rights, poverty, gender, discrimination, among others.

She is currently attached to the Human Rights Program at UNAM and is the founder of the Human Rights HUB, an initiative that promotes pedagogic and collaborative actions to address the violation of human rights and to make visible discriminatory cognitive biases in Mexican society.

She is a Faculty member at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM and has written  various publications on her working topics.

André Lázaro

Santillana Foundation, expert on education and discrimination, Brazil.

Director of the Santillana Foundation in Brazil and researcher at the Latin American College of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He holds a degree in Literature as well as a Master's and PhD Degrees in Communication from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He was a faculty member at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) where he directed the Cultural Department, the Communication Department and was Vice Headmaster of Extension and Culture. Between 2004 and 2010 he worked with the Ministry of Education and directed the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Literacy and Diversity (SECAD), the body responsible for national policies on education, human rights, combating racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. Between 2010 and 2015 he chaired the Advisory Council of the Educational Goals Plan 2021 of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) and presented, on behalf of the Council, the Reports on Education in Ibero-America. With Canal Futura Association, he coordinated and wrote Education and Diversity, the Brazilian version of the international project Why poverty? in collaboration with Steps International, the BBC and 70 broadcast stations from various countries.

He currently holds conferences and publishes articles on issues on education, diversity and inequality, human rights, the right to education and affirmative actions in higher education.

Gabriela Iturralde

Researcher at the National Program of People Afro descent and Cultural Diversity National Institute of Anthropology and History

She holds a degree in Latin American Studies from the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at UNAM. She has a Master degree in social anthropology from University of Barcelona and is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the Postgraduate Division at UNAM. She is a researcher in the Research Program on Afro descendants and Cultural Diversity of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and is a professor at the College of Latin American Studies, Department of Philosophy and Humanities.

She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Network on Identities, Racism and Xenophobia in Latin America (RED Integra -Conacyt) and of the Research and Advocacy Observatory on Justice for Afro-descendants in Latin America and in Mexico. Currently she holds the position of Training, Networking and Academic Extension Director of the National Coordination of Anthropology for INAH. Among her recent publications: Afro-descendants in Mexico: a history of silence and discrimination (2012); Obstacles to the constitutional recognition of Afro-Mexican peoples and communities: objections to racism? (2017); Name and hide: some reflections about miscegenation and Afro-descendant populations in Mexico (2017); and Afromexicanos: reflections on the dynamics of recognition (2016).

Germán Palafox Palafox

Director of the Psychology Department

He has a BA degree in Psychology from UNAM, where he graduated with honors. He also studied Mathematics at the College of Sciences. He holds Master and PhD degrees in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University. After concluding, he fulfilled a post-doctoral fellowship at MacLean Hospital and Harvard University from December 1993 to June 1994.

Throughout his career he has received several distinctions from US universities as researcher and associate professor in the departments of psycho-biology and neurosciences. His main field of study is perception and visual attention but he is also interested in other psychology-related areas with an experimental perspective that extends to the field of public policy. To further developed his interest in education policies, science and technology, he pursued a Master in Public Administration at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, focusing on the study of education policies, organizational change, leadership and decision-making psychology.

He joined UNAM full time in 1998 to become the head of the Postgraduate Division of the Psychology Department; later he became the first Coordinator of the Masters and PhD Programs in Psychology (1999-2001). Currently, he holds the position of Headmaster of the Psychology Department until 2020.

Karine Duhamel

Curator and Historian Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Karine Duhamel  (B.Ed.,  M.A.,  Ph.D)  is  of  Anishinaabe and  Métis  heritage  and  serves  as  Curator for  Indigenous  Rights  at  the  recently  opened  Canadian  Museum  for  Human  Rights,  where she  creates  museum  exhibitions  and  program  content that engages the histories of Indigenous  people  and  communities. In doing so, Dr.  Duhamel  prioritizes  building  new  relationships for  story  development  based in meaningful  engagement. She is  the  institutional  expert  on  program  content,  media  and  special  initiatives  associated  with  Indigenous communities  in  Canada  and  with  ongoing  efforts  at  reconciliation  and  reparation. Outside of  the  Museum, Dr.  Duhamel  is  a  recognized educator  at  the  elementary and  university  level  and has developed courses on Indigenous-state  relationships,  on  the  history  of  residential  schools,  and  on  Indigenous  rights  movements  in  Canada  and  in  the  United  States. Dr. Duhamel  is  currently  on  leave  from  the  Museum  to  act  as  Director  of  Research  for  the  National  Inquiry  into  Missing  and  Murdered  Indigenous  Women  and  Girls.

Matias Risse

Philosophy and Public Policy Professor, Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

He is  Professor  of  Philosophy  and  Public  Policy  at  the  John  F.  Kennedy  School  of  Government  at  Harvard  University.  His  work  primarily  addresses  questions  of  global  justice  ranging  from  human  rights,  inequality,  taxation,  trade  and  immigration  to  climate  change,  obligations  to  future  generations  and  the  future  of  technology.  He  has  also  worked  on  questions  in  ethics,  decision  theory  and  19th  century  German  philosophy,  especially  Nietzsche.  In  addition  to  the  Harvard  Kennedy  School,  he  teaches  in  Harvard  College  and  the  Harvard  Extension  School,  and  he  is  affiliated  with  the  Harvard  philosophy  department.  He  has  also  been  involved  with  executive  education  both  at  Harvard  and  in  collaboration  with  international  organizations.  Risse  is  the  author  of  On  Global  Justice  and  Global  Political  Philosophy.  He  is  currently  completing  a  co-authored  book  on  trade  justice  tentatively  entitled  On  Trade  Justice:  A  Philosophical  Plea  for  a  New  Global  Deal.  Risse  serves  as  Co-Director  of  Graduate  Studies  at  the  Edmond  J  Safra  Center  for  Ethics,  Acting  Director  of  the  Carr  Center  for  Human  Rights  Policy,  as  well  as  Director  of  the  McCloy  program,  a  prestigious  fellowship  program  for  German  students.  Risse  has  been  the  organizer  of  a  number  of  major  international  conferences  at  Harvard  and  a  co-organizer  of  several  more  such  events  in  East  and  South  East  Asia  (Singapore,  Seoul  and  Shanghai),  as  a  way  of  fostering  collaboration  among  political  philosophers  and  representatives  of  other  fields  across  cultural  divides.  He  has  been  a  visiting  professor  at  the  National  University  of  Singapore.  New  York  University  Abu  Dhabi  and  Leuphana  University  in  Germany.

Mónica Ramírez

Board Director of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas and leader of #Times Up movement

Mónica Ramírez is a long-time advocate, organizer, social entrepreneur and attorney fighting to eliminate gender-based violence and secure gender equity. For over two decades, she has fought for the civil and human rights of women, children, workers, Latinos/as and immigrants. In 2003, Mónica created the first legal project in the United States dedicated to addressing gender discrimination against farmworker women, which she scaled to create Esperanza: The Immigrant Women’s Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center. She has founded and co-founded several other major initiatives, including Justice for Migrant Women, the Latina Impact Fund, ReflectUS and Alianza Nacional de Campesinas.

Mónica wrote the letter on behalf of Alianza that was published in TIME magazine from farmworker women to women in the entertainment industry that sparked the creation of the TIME’S UP movement.  Mónica is recognized as a thought leader and prominent voice in the Latinx community.

She has received Harvard Kennedy School’s inaugural Gender Equity Changemaker Award, the Feminist Majority’s Global Women’s Rights Award, and Forbes Mexico included her on its 2018 list of 100 Powerful Women, among other distinctions. Mónica is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago, The Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and Harvard Kennedy School.

Priscila Cruz

Brazil. CEO of Todos por la educación

Ms. Priscila Cruz holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, an undergraduate degree in both Business Administration from Getúlio Vargas Foundation and Law from the University of Sao Paulo as well as professional development studies at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. Before entering into the not-for-profit sector, Ms. Cruz worked as a strategic consultant at Bain & Co. and Marsh McLennan and acted as the general coordinator of the United Nations International Volunteering Year in Brazil in 2001, an effort that awarded the initiative a special distinction (amongst 123 countries) from the UN.

In 2002 Ms. Cruz was one the founders, the Faça Parte ("Be a Part") Institute, an NGO that focuses on engaging students from public schools into educational volunteering programmes (i.e. service learning). In 2005, she coordinated the launching of the Todos Pela Educação ("All for Education") movement, currently one of Brazil's most respected NGO's that aims to transform the quality of Brazil's Basic Educational system by “raising the Education flag” through Brazil’s main media channels and by advocating for specific policy change at the national level.   As the co-founder and Executive President of Todos Pela Educação, Mr. Cruz has been responsible for leading national campaigns and has spoken at a great number of events throughout the country and abroad. In 2012, she received the Young Leader in Education Award, sponsored by the Grupo Estado, one of Brazil's most prominent media conglomerates and the Darcy Ribeiro Prize, given by the National Congress. In 2017, was finalist of another media Award, from Claudia Magazine, for her work on public policies.

Vicky Araico

Actress, writer and producer

Actress, writer, producer and movement professional. She graduated from the  Theater Department at UNAM and in 2009 she completed a Master's Degree in Movement Management and Pedagogy at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, with the support of FONCA. Her recent work includes Antigone in  The tears of Oedipus by Wajdi Maouwad under the direction of Hugo Arrevillaga, whose performance earned her a nomination for best actress from the Association of Critics and Theatrical Journalists of Mexico (ACPT) and Miracles on Bucket List with the British Company Theater Ad Infinitum, which was acclaimed by international critics at the 2016 edition of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, receiving a Spirit of the Fringe Award.

Alexandra Haas Paciuc

President of CONAPRED

She is currently President of the National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación (CONAPRED). She headed the division of Political Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, DC. She also headed ProMexico Office in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Portugal between 2008 to 2011. She has worked extensively as a human rights lawyer and public policy consultant for UN´s High Commission for Human Rights and different NGOs, especially Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH) in Guatemala. She helped developed Mexico´s First Human Rights Program (2004-2007).

Ms Haas holds a Law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) and has a Master in Law from New York University (NYU). She has taught Human Rights at graduate level in FLACSO and law courses at Universidad Iberoamericana and the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. She is a member of the International Network for Human Rights and the Mexican Council of Foreign Affairs (COMEXI).  She is a co-author of  Trabajadores Migrantes Indocumentados: Condición Migratoria y Derechos Humanos, as many other articles about human rights.

Alejandro Noriega Campero

Researcher Human Dynamics Laboratory, MIT Media Lab

He  is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, whose research focuses on the use of human and artificial intelligence in social decision systems. He also earned a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). His research lies at the intersection of decision sciences, artificial intelligence, causal inference, policy, and economics. The vision driving Alejandro’s career is to bridge academic breakthroughs in AI with their sensible application for the public good. In the past few years he has conducted applied research projects with the United Nations’ Big Data initiative (Global Pulse), the national governments of Mexico, Colombia, Andorra, and Saudi Arabia, as well as several partners in industry. He currently leads a research collaboration between MIT and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) focused on developing "AI Systems for the Fair and Efficient Targeting of Social Programs"—such as Conditional Cash Transfers—across the globe. Alejandro is native of Mexico City, an alumnus of ITAM, and a Fulbright Fellow since 2013.

Alfonso Ayala Sánchez

Researcher at Anáhuac University in Xalapa and founding member Centro de Estudios Estratégicos y Cognición Social Implícita

Alfonso  Ayala  is  the  Project  Implicit  Lead  Scientist,  chapter  Mexico.  Currently,  he  is  a  Researcher  and  Professor  in  the  Colegio  de  Veracruz  (COLVER),  and  part  of  the  National  System  of  Researchers  of  the  National  Council  for  Science  and  Technology  (CONACYT).  He  earned  a  Master  in  Public  Administration,  and  a  Master  in  Law  from  Harvard  University,  and  a  S.J.D.  from  the  Universidad  Nacional  Autonoma  de  Mexico  (National  Autonomous  University  of  Mexico).  He  has  published  several  books,  including  Equality  and  Consciousness.  Implicit  biases  in  Builders  and  Interpreters  of  Law.  His  areas  of  work  are:  New  technologies  and  their  relation  to  the  electoral  processes  in  Mexico  and  the  implicit  biases  in  public  decision  makers.

Beatriz Slooten

Behavioral economics researcher , Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad  y el Desarrollo Sostenible – CLACDS, Costa Rica

She is a specialist in public policy and behavioral economics. She has a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University, a Master in Business Administration from Universidad Latina and has a degree in Psychology by Universidad de Costa Rica. Currently she is working as a researcher in Centro Latinoamericano para la Competitividad y el Desarrollo Sostenible (CLACDS) of INCAE based in Costa Rica, on issues related to migration, human capital, behavioral economics and energy. She previously worked as a consultant for international organizations such as Inter-American Development Bank, International Labour Organization, Organization of American States, among others. She has lectured at different universities and has been invited at different international forums to speak on issues about labor rights and corporate social responsibility.

Citlali Quecha

Researcher, Institute  of Anthropological Studies, UNAM

She holds a BA in Social Anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) and Master and PhD degrees in Anthropology from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She pursued a postdoctoral degree at the Department of Anthropological Sciences at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Iztapalapa.

In 2012 she won third place in UNICEF´s 4th Award in the category of Best Researcher for her doctoral thesis. From 2013 to 2014 she headed an area to promote research nationwide at the Coordination of Anthropology of INAH. Currently she is a researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Research at UNAM and member of the National Research System Level 1. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students at UNAM in Anthropology and Development and Intercultural Management, as well as Social Anthropology at ENAH.

She coordinates the Conacyt INTEGRA National Network Project regarding "Racism and Afro-descendants". She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Child and Teenagers Protection System (SIPINNA) in Mexico City. Her academic interests include issues regarding people from African descent in Mexico, in particular childhood, migration, social movements and religious expressions.

Daniel Arzola

Venezuelan artist and LGTBQ activist

Born in Venezuela, Daniel Arzola is a visual artist, human rights activist and lecturer. He won the Trailblazer Honor Award by TV network Logo TV for his contributions to enhance the rights of the LGTBQ community.  Daniel Arzola popularized the term "Artivism" with his collection "No Soy Tu Chiste", a series of posters denouncing homophobia, transphobia and discrimination of LGTBQ people. His work was translated into twenty languages ​​and supported via twitter by American singer Madonna.

Arzola took part in the first LGTBQ subway artistic intervention in Latin American done at the Carlos Jauregui station in Buenos Aires. A mural of fourteen meters that extended through the stairways and with allusive balconies, Arzola´s work reflects Carlos Jáuregui´s and the LGTBQ community struggles in Latin America. Daniel Arzola´s has been invited to Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University and Amherst College in the US to talk about his “Artivism”; he has also participated as a key note speaker at the University of Alberta in Canada and Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela. In 2017 the American Journal Americas Quarterly included Daniel Arzola in his top 5 influential graphic artists in Latin America.

Daniel Lima

Social activist, visual artist and researcher, Brazil

Daniel Lima graduated in Plastic Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at São Paulo University. He holds a Master in Clinical Psychology from the Center for the Study of Subjectivity PUC/SP and a PhD in Media and Audiovisual Processes from the School of Communication and Arts from São Paulo University. He is currently enrolled in a Postgraduate Program on Media and Audiovisual Processes.

Since 2001 his creative work focuses on interventions and interferences in the urban space. He has participated in different collective works, develops media-related interventions, addressing issues related to racial bias and educational processes. He is a founding member of the collective A Revolução Não Será Televisionada, Política do Impossível and Frente 3 de Fevereiro. He directs the production and editorial Invisíveis Produções.

Daniela Gleizer

Researcher Institute of Historic Studies, UNAM

She holds a PhD in History from El Colegio de México and she is currently a researcher at the Institute of Historic Research at UNAM. She has devoted herself to the study of migration, asylum and refuges in the Mexican twentieth-century history. She also studies issues regarding citizenship and naturalization. She is the author, among others, of the book El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados Judíos, 1933-1945 (2011), translated into English by the publisher Brill in 2014. She has received several awards for her work.

Federico Navarrete

Historian and author of “ The ABC of Mexican Racism”

He is a historian, anthropologist and researcher at the Institute of Historic Research at UNAM. He has written more than 30 academic articles about the history of indigenous peoples in America and a dozen books: Alfabeto del racismo mexicano, (2017), México racista (2016), Hacia otra historia de América (2015), Los orígenes de los pueblos del valle de México. Los altépetl y sus historias (2012), Los pueblos indígenas del México contemporáneo (2009) y Las relaciones interétnicas en México (2004).  In his work Prof. Navarrete analyzes the complex and intertwining relationships among indigenous peoples, Europeans and Africans who came to the continent and looks into how their cultures adapted to new realities. He has also analyzed the interethnic relations and all forms of discrimination and racism that have been established between the different settlers and native nations.

He has also published fiction novels like El códice perdido (2018), Nahuales contra vampiros (2013) y Huesos de Lagartija (1998); he has also written books for young people: Las otras historias de México (2010), Guía para sobrevivir en el siglo XXI (2009), La invención de los caníbales (2008) y Vida y palabras de los indios de América, among others.

Gael García Bernal

Film director

He studied at the Central School for Speech and Drama in London. He starred in feature films with Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros), Alfonso Cuarón (Y Tu Mamá También), Carlos Carrera (The Crime of Father Amaro), Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries), Pedro Almodóvar (Bad Education), James Marsh (The King), Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep), Hector Babenco (Past) and Fernando Meirelles' Blindness. He participated with Lukas Moodysson in Mammoth, in The Limits of Control by Jim Jarmusch, Iciar Bollain's Even the Rain and Pablo Larrain’s No and Neruda. He later appeared in Pablo Fendrik's El ardor and Museo by Alonso Ruizpalacios, among many others.

In 2016 he received a Golden Globe as Best Lead Actor for the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle. He also portrayed the voice of Héctor in Disney-Pixar’s Coco, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2018.

García Bernal made his directorial debut with Déficit and he recently directed his second feature film Chicuarotes. He also directed The Invisibles four short films for Amnesty International.

In 2005 he participated in Lorca's play Bloodwedding in London and soon after in the play Together with the Vesturport Theatre Group in Iceland and Mexico. In 2018 he returned to theaters portraying Fernando Pessoa in Ejercicios fantásticos del yo by Sabina Berman in Argentina.  In 2005, with Diego Luna, Pablo Cruz and Elena Fortes he founded the not-for-profit documentary film festival Ambulante (www.ambulante.org).

Irma Pineda Santiago

Poet, essayist and translator binnizá

Poet, essay writer and binnizá translator from Juchitán, Oaxaca. She is a professor at the National Pedagogical University in Ixtepec and author of several bilingual poetry books such as Xilase Nisadó / Nostalgias del mar (SEP, 2006); Doo yoo ne ga 'bia' / From the House of the navel to the Nueve Cuartas (CDI, 2009); Guie 'ni Zinebe / La Flor que Llevó (Pluralia-INBA, 2013) and Naxiña' Rului'ladxe'-Rojo Deseo (Pluralia, 2018), among others. Her essays and translations have been published by the University of Siena, Italy; the Unistmo, DGCP, Guerrero A.C College. and the Ministry of Education. She was Fellow of FONCA and the National System of Art Creators of Mexico (SNCA). She was resident artist at the International Literary Translation Center of the Banff Center of the Arts, in Alberta, Canada; the Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center of the University of Washington and the Street and Dreams Art House, in Chicago, United States. Her work, translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Serbian and Russian appears in various anthologies of America and Europe. She has also been lecturer and guest professor in Italy, United States and Ecuador; besides the UNAM, UPN, UAM, COLMEX, UNISTMO, to name a few.

Jesús Rodríguez Zepeda

Researcher at Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM)

Has a doctoral degree in Moral and Political Philosophy a from UNED in Madrid, Spain. He is a professor-researcher at the Department of Philosophy at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa campus. He is a national researcher, level III at the National System of Researchers  (SNI) and is Research Coordinator of the Research Network on Discrimination (Red  de  Investigación  sobre  Discriminación) (RINDIS).

His most recent books are: Un  marco  teórico  para  la  discriminación  (2006),  El  igualitarismo  liberal  de  John  Rawls.  Estudio  de  la  teoría  de  la  justicia  (2010),  Iguales  y  diferentes.  La  discriminación  y  los  retos  de  la  democracia  incluyente  (2011),  Democracia,  educación  y  no  discriminación  (2011),  La  justicia  y  las  atrocidades  del  pasado.  Teoría  y  análisis  de  la  justicia  transicional  (2012),  Hacia  una  razón  antidiscriminatoria.  Estudios  analíticos  y  normativos  sobre  la  igualdad  de  trato  (2014),  Ética  y  derecho  a  la  información:  los  valores  del  servicio  público  (2016),  Para  discutir  la  acción  afirmativa  (with  Alejandro  Sahuí and  Teresa  González  Luna,  2  vols.,  Universidad  de  Guadalajara)  y  La  palabra  y  el  prejuicio:  los  derechos  a  la  libre  expresión  y  a  la  no  discriminación  en  contraste  (2018).

Laura Salas

Program Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean Region, WITNESS Project

Laura leads WITNESS’ work in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has over fourteen years of experience in community work, especially on communication projects. She has directed over a dozen audiovisual projects with social and human rights content that have been screened at film festivals in Mexico and other countries. She also performs tasks such as direction, screenwriting, investigation, photography and training at the media collective La Sandía Digital.

Laura has a degree in journalism, with a specialization in human rights and documentary filmmaking, and a Master’s Degree in human rights and democracy from FLASCO (Latin America Faculty of Social Sciences). She previously served as Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression at the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City. Laura coordinated the WITNESS and HIC AL video advocacy initiative in Mexico, and worked at several other human rights organizations, including the Mexican Commission of Defense and Promotion of Human Right, and the Human Rights Center of the Mountain “Tlachinollan,” among others. She is member of several collectives.

Luis de la Barreda

Coordinator, Human Rights Program at UNAM

He  is  the  founder  and  current  coordinator  of  the  Human  Rights  Program  (PUDH)  at  Metropolitan Autonomous University  (UNAM).  He  also  founded  the  Citizenship  Institute  for  Security  Studies  (Instituto  Ciudadano  de  Estudios  sobre  la  Inseguridad),  where  he  served  as  Executive  Director.  Later  he  became  the  first  President  of  Mexico  City  ́s  Human  Rights  Commission  (CDHDF).  For  the  National  Commission  for  Human  Rights,  he  served  as  Human  Rights  Visitor  at  different  penitentiaries.  He  is  a  researcher  at  the  Institute  for  Legal  Research  at  UNAM  (Instituto  de  Investigaciones  Jurídicas),  member  of  the  Mexican  Academy  of  Criminal  Sciences,  professor  of  criminal  law  at  UNAM  and  the  Autonomous  Metropolitan  University  (UAM),  Professor  of  Human  Rights  at  the  Graduate  School  of  Law  at  UNAM  and  member  of  the  National  System  of  Researchers  (SNI).  He  has  been  professor  of  Latin  American  Graduate  Studies  in  Criminal  Science  and  Criminology  at  the  University  of  Zulia,  in  Maracaibo,  Venezuela.  He  was  ordained  as  Knight  of  the  Legion  of  Honor  by  the  French  Government.  He  has  written  many  books  and  articles  on  criminal  justice  and  human  rights  that  have  been  published  in  magazines  or  collective  books  in  Argentina,  Colombia,  Spain,  Panama,  Peru,  Venezuela  and  Mexico.  He  currently  collaborates  for  a  weekly  column  in  the  Mexican  newspaper  Excelsior.

Luis Mandoki

Film director

Born  in  Mexico,  director  Luis  Mandoki  studied  at  the  San  Francisco  Art  Institute  and  the  London  International  Film  School.  In  1976,  Mandoki  received  international  recognition  with  his  short  film  “Silent  Music”  which  won  first  place  at  the  Cannes  Film  Festival.  In  1979,  his  short  film  “The  Secret”won  the  Ariel  for  Best  Short  Feature  in  Mexico.  In  1987  he  wrote,  produced  and  directed  his  first  feature  “Gaby:  A  True  Story”.  The  film  received  an  Oscar  nomination  and  two  Golden  Globe  nominations,  detonating  his  Hollywood  career.  Mandoki  directed  his  first  feature  in  the  United  States,  “White  Palace”,  starring  Susan  Sarandon  and  James  Spader.  He  later  went  on  to  direct  “When  A  Man  Loves  A  Woman”  with  Meg  Ryan  and  Andy  Garcia,  “Message  In  A  Bottle”,  with  Paul  Newman,  Robin  Wright  Penn,  and  Kevin  Costner;  “Angel  Eyes”,  with  Jennifer  Lopez  and  James  Caviezel;  and  “Trapped”,  with  Charlize  Theron  and  Kevin  Bacon.  His  film,  “Innocent  Voices”,  received  various  awards  including  the  Crystal  Bear  at  the  Berlin  Film  Festival,  Best  Film  at  the  Seattle  Film  Festival;  and  the  Stanley  Kramer  Award,  given  by  the  Producer`s  Guild  of  America.  Most  recently,  he  directed  “Sabina  Rivas”,  the  saga  of  a  girl  from  Honduras  and  her  journey  trying  to  get  to  the  United  States.

Mardonio Carballo

Indigenous social activist, poet and writer

He is of Nahuatl origin and an Autodidact.  He is a poet, actor and Mexican journalist. He is a weekly contributor in Carmen Aristegui´s broadcast news. His section “Las Plumas de la Serpiente” narrates the vitality of indigenous people in Mexico and has become a reference to understand their current challenges.

As a poet he has edited many books, among them Xolo and Tlajpiajket and The song of the corn are well known. As a journalist he has won several awards: National Journalist Award by the Club  de  Periodistas  de  México  (2009  and  2015) and many other honorific distinctions from journalist contests of radio and television. In 2016, he was granted by the Supreme  Court the amendment of article 230 of the Federal Law of telecommunications and radio broadcasting (LFTyR). In September of that same year, he became local deputy and was appointed President of the Commission of Indigenous People and Neighborhood and Resident Indigenous Communities of the Constitutional Assembly of Mexico City, in charge of drafting acts around indigenous issues for the local government bodies. Recently, he was awarded a medal for his merits from Universidad  Veracruzana (2018).

María Luisa Parra

Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literature and researcher on Immigration and Education Policies, Harvard University.

She has a B.A. in Psychology, a Ph.D in Hispanics Linguistics and fifteen years of experience in the fields of Second Language Acquisition and Child Bilingual Development. She has taught Spanish Language and Culture at Boston University and in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard, where she is currently Senior Preceptor and course head of Spanish Aa, Spanish Ab and Spanish 59 "Spanish and the Community".

She is pioneering the Spanish courses for Latino students. And she is the coordinator of the RLL's Initiative on the teaching of Spanish as heritage language. She also has broad experience working closely with immigrant families and children. She was coordinator of the Home-School Connection Program at the Elliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University where she looked at the various ways in which parents and teachers supported transitions, school adaptation and academic success. In 2008 she continued and expanded her work as a post doctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Education working with Mexican and African American children attending East Palo Alto public schools. Based on an ecological theoretical model, Dr. Parra's work focuses on how parents and teachers impact bilingual development through daily interactions.

A native Spanish speaker from Mexico City, and a mother of two bilingual and bicultural teen age boys, Dr. Parra has always been fascinated by the complexities and joys of bilingual development. She is the founder and director of the Multilingual Family Resource Center.

Monami Maulik

Coordinator of the Global Coalition on Migration

Monami  Maulik  is  an  international  migrant  and  gender  rights  advocate  and  founder  of  a  grassroots  South  Asian  migrant  organization.    Ms.  Maulik  is  the  International  Coordinator  for  the  Global  Coalition  on  Migration,  a  multi-sectoral  alliance  of  migrant-led  networks  representing  all  regions  as  well  as  trade  unions,  faith-based  and  policy  organizations.    She  also  serves  as  in  International  Steering  Committees  of  the  Women  in  Migration  Network  (WIMN)  and  the  Civil  Society  Days  of  the  Global  Forum  on  Migration  and  Development.    Prior  to  this,  she  worked  as  an  International  Consultant  for  UN  Women  to  advance  the  human  and  labor  rights  of  women  migrant  workers  in  the  Asia  and  the  Middle  East.  From  2000-2014,  Ms.  Maulik  served  as  founding  Director  of  DRUM-  The  South  Asian  Organizing  Center  in  New  York  City.  She  currently  serves  as  a  board  member  of  the  U.S.  Human  RightsNetwork,  the  Center  for  Constitutional  Rights  and  the  National  Network  for  Immigrant  and  Refugee  Rights.  Ms.  Maulik  has  received  the  U.S.  Human  Rights  Movement  Builder  Award  and  the  Open  Society  Foundation  NYC  Community  Fellowship.  She  holds  a  Master  in  Public  Administration  from  Harvard  University’s  John  F.  Kennedy  School  of  Government.

Olivia Gall

Integra Network, Professor at UNAM

Olivia  Gall  graduated in Sociology (UNAM) and earned Master and PhD Degrees in Political History at the Institute of Political Studies in France. She is a full-time researcher at CEIICH UNAM and member of the National System of Researchers, level II. She is member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and is General Coordinator of INTEGRA, an Interdisciplinary Research Program on Identities, Racism and Xenophobia in Latin America (CONACyT-CEIICH) (www.redintegra.org)  ) and CLACSO Group Racism and Xenophobia.

Currently she leads a PAPIIT Project (2018–2020) entitled “Primary School, racism and xenophobia  in  México”.  She has published eight books, among them: Trotsky and political life in Mexico under President Cardenas:  1937-1940  (2010); Chiapas, society, economy, multiculturalism and politics (2003) and Racism, miscegenation and modernity:  Views from various latitudes (2007).

She has been a guest editor of Racism and Miscegenation Debate, Oct  2001; a monograph of Racism in Revista Interdisciplina  (sept  –  dic  2014), and a monograph on Identities,  Racism  y  Xenophobia, in Desacatos Magazine (2016). She is the author of around 40 chapters in peer-reviewed books and about 40 articles in refereed journals. She has spoken at over 100 national and international conferences.

Rebeca Barriga

Researcher on discrimination and indigenous languages,  El Colegio de México.

Since 1985, she is a Professor and researcher at the Center for Linguistic and Literary Studies, (CELL) at Colegio de México. She received her PhD in Hispanic Linguistic at El Colegio de Mexico in 1990. In her academic and research work she has imbricated three lines of research: a) language development during school years, b) education and language policies in Mexico, and c) Linguistics and Education. In time, she has developed a new line of research: historiography of Mexican linguistics. She teaches at El Colegio de Mexico, Universidad  Nacional  Autónoma  de  México and the  Centro  de  Investigaciones  y  Estudios  Superiores  en  Antropología  Social (CIESAS).  She is a member of the National System of Researchers level III, and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She has been a member of the Governing Board of the Colegio de México since 2013, and was recently invited to participate as an advisor to the Governing Board of CIESAS from 2018 to 2022.

Rolando Díaz-Loving

Researcher, Department of Psychology, UNAM

Rolando  Diaz  Loving  received  his  PhD    in  Social  Psychology  from  University  of  Texas  at  Austin  in  1981.  He  joined  the  Psychology  Department  at  Universidad  Nacional  Autónoma  de  México  (National  Autonomous  University  of  Mexico)  where  he  is  full  time  Professor.His  work  on  Personality  and  Social  Psychology  are  widely  known  in  Latin  America  and  his  bio-psycho-socio-cultural  theory  about  human  relationships  are  a  reference  in  many  scientific  studies  concerning  family  and  couples.  His  studies  in  the  area  of  couples,  sexual  behavior,  contraceptive  behavior,  health  and  HIV  have  been  essential  to  design  and  implement  public  programs.He  was  President  at  the  Interamerican  Society  of  Psychology  and  of  thePsychology  and  Social  Development  Division  of  the  International  Association  of  Applied  Psychology.  He  is  co-founder  and  former  President  of  the  Mexican  Association  of  Social  Psychology.  He  has  worked  as  consultant  for  the  University  of  Illinois,  the  World  Health  Organization  and  the  International  Union  of  Psychological  Science.  He  was  also  Research  Fellow  at  the  Hogg  Foundation  for  Mental  Health  and  advisor  of  the  Latin  Initiative  to  Promote  Healthy  Marriage  sponsored  by  the  United  States  federal  government.

Sylvia Schmelkes

Member of the Advisory Board of Evaluation on Education (INEE)

She is a sociologist with a Master in Educational Research and Development by Universidad Iberoamericana. She has been an education researcher since 1970. She has published over 150 works, including books and articles, about quality in education, adult education, values and education and intercultural education. She founded and was the General Coordinator of Intercultural and Bilingual Education Division at the Ministry of Public Education (2001-2007). She served as president of the Governing Board of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation of OECD from 2002 to 2004. She led the Research Institute for the Development of Education at Universidad Iberoamericana from 2007 to 2013. She received the medal Joan Amos Comenius, granted by Czchek Republic and UNESCO, in 2008 and 2017. She received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad  Autónoma de Baja  California for her contributions to education in Mexico and worldwide. She was president of the Governing Board of the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education (INEE) from May 2013 to April 2017. Currently she works as Counselor for the Governing Board of INEE.

Vincent Velázquez

Musician, poet, dancer and cultural promoter

Vincent is originally from the town of Xichú, Guanajuato. He holds a BA in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Querétaro and is also a musician, poet, and cultural promoter. For 14 years, Vincent has embraced music and words, collaborating on projects such as the prodigious "Roots". For six years he has been a member of "La Maganza" and "Militants of Life". He is currently a dancer and palabrero of the emblematic group of Guillermo Velázquez, "Los Leones de la Sierra de Xichú" with whom he has toured the country. He has made presentations in various countries such as France, Chile, Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico, raising the tradition of the huapango arribeño. Recently Vincent started a solo project called "Palabra Viva", participating in important cultural forums in Mexico and Latin America, such as the "Calle Genera" festival in Monterrey, the "Todo sobre Ruelas" festival in Zacatecas and "La Corrala del Mitote" at UNAM. He also participated at the Ibero-American Conference of Young Poets in Medellin, Colombia and at the League of Written Battles "Secrets of Socrates." In his words, he is a militant of life with the mission to leave a beautiful memory in others through music, rhythm and words.

Yael Siman

Head of the A. G. Leventis Chair at the Division on Global Studies, Universidad Anáhuac; Associated Professor of Facing History and Ourselves

She has a BA Degree in Foreign Affairs from Universidad Iberoamericana. As a Fulbright Scholar,  she earned Master and PhD degrees in Political Science at University of Chicago. She has taught in the Department of Foreign Affairs at Universidad Iberoamericana and ITAM her course regarding Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. She has served as an academic coordinator of credited programs in Middle Eastern Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana and the Museum of Memory and Tolerance. She is an Associate Professor of the international educational organization Facing History and  Ourselves.  She currently chairs the A.G.  Leventis Chair for the study of Cyprus of the Global Studies College at  Universidad  Anáhuac.

Yolanda Cruz

Film director

Yolanda is a filmmaker. She attended film school at the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles. She currently lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. In the last ten years, Yolanda has independently produced three short fiction films and seven films which have captured the public interests in festivals, museums, public broadcaster and universities around the world. Yolanda is currently developing a film supported by the Sundance Institute, a documentary for the Museum of the American Indian, and another for Getty Center. The constant themes of her work are: art, indigenous languages and migration. As an indigenous filmmaker, migrant and Latina she focusses on pressing issues for her community and presents new topics for discussion.  She has been nominated for the Social Justice Award of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, CA., in the category of best documentary and Expressions in Short  and for the  National  Geographic Audience Award.    www.petate.com

Yoshua Okon

Mexican artist

His work is a series of quasi-social experiments performed for the camera Acting, documentation and improvisation are mixed, in order to reflect upon the common perceptions of reality and truth, individuality and morality. In 2002 has earned a Master’s Degree in Art from UCLA supported by a Fulbright’s scholarship. His solo exhibitions include: Yoshya shua  Okón:  In  the  Land  of  Ownership,  Asakusa,  Tokio;  Saló  Island,  UC  Irvine,  Irvine;  Piovra,  Kaufmann  Repetto,  Milán; Poulpe,  Mor  Charpentier,  París; Octopus,  Cornerhouse,  Manchester  and  Hammer  Museum,  Los  Ángeles  and  SUBTITLE,  Kunsthalle,  Múnich.  Among his collective works:  Manifesta  11,  Zurich;  Gwangju Bienal,  Korea;  Antes  de  la  resaca,  MUAC,  México  DF;  Incongruous,  Musèe  Cantonal  des  Beux-Arts,  Lausanne;  El  horizonte  del  topo,  Beaux  Arts,  Bruselas;  Bienal  de  Mercosur,  Porto  Alegre;  Amateurs,  CCA  Wattis,  San  Francisco;  Laughing  in  a  Foreign  Language,  Hayward  Gallery,  Londres;  Adaptive  Behavior,  New  Museum,  NY  y  Mexico  City:  an  exhibition  about  the  exchange  rates  of  bodies  and  values,  PS1,  MoMA,  NY,  y  Kunstwerke,  Berlín.  His work can be found in the collections of the Tate Modern, Hammer Museum, LACMA MUAC and Jumex Collection, among others.

Yuri Escalante Betancourt

Social anthropologist and expert on legal racism in Mexico

He earned a BA in Ethnohistory from Escuela  Nacional  de  Antropología  (ENAH)  and a Master in Social Anthropology from Centro  de  Investigaciones  Superiores  en  Antropología  Social  (CIESAS).   He worked for 15 years in the Department of Law Enforcement INI/CDI. He is a social researcher at Mezquital River Basin Durango Project with the WWF. He has participated in the dictamination  of social safeguards in World Bank projects in the extinct Ministry of Agrarian Reform. Currently he works at a state trust fund for common lands in Cieneguillas Lerma, in the State of Mexico. He is an specialist in legal anthropology and forensic historical and anthropological studies. Among his published work: Derechos religiosos y pueblos Indígenas (1998); Lugares sagrados y Legislación mexicana (2001); La experiencia del peritaje antropológico (2002); La discriminación étnica (2009) and El racismo judicial en México (2015).

Yutsil Cruz

Visual artist

Yutsil  Cruz,  was  born  in  Mexico  City.  She  is  a  full-time  artist  involved  in  production,  research  and  teaching  at  the  School  of  Arts  and  Design  (FAD)  at  UNAM.  Her  work  addresses  diverse  issues  regarding  the  colonialist  past  and  historical  value  of  spaces  in  Mexico.  She  develops  her  work  in  various  artistic  disciplines:  video,  installation,  in-site  intervention  and  recording.  She  holds  a  BA  from  FAD  and  a  Master  degree  in  History  of  Contemporary  Art  and  Visual  Culture  from  MCAR/UAM/UCM  in  Spain.  Later  she  pursued  another  Master  in  Visual  Arts  at  UNAM.  She  has  participated  in  individual  and  collective  exhibitions  in  Mexico,  Argentina,  Colombia,  Costa  Rica,  London  and  Italy.  She  was  awarded  the  Cultural  Co  Investment  Support  from  Fondo  Nacional  para  la  Cultura  y  las  Artes  (FONCA)  in  2008  and  was  also  awardee  of  the  Patronato  de  Arte  Contemporáneo  Scholarship  in  2007.  Both  scholarships  helped  her  to  develop    her  contextual  project  Obstinado  Tepito  between  2007  to  2012.

Zara Monroy

Singer and Song Writer of Comca'ac Indigenous People

She is a young Comca´ac native, an indigenous peoples from northwest Mexico. A recent and powerful musical young singer, Zara mixes her poetry written in Seri language (cmiique iitom) with the rhythms of hip-hop, ballad, reggae, and others, to present her culture in the eyes and ears of the world.

She is founder and active member of the Ecological Club Azoj Canoj (means Star), a youth organization within the Comca´ac territory composed mostly of women from the community. The young singer coordinates different workshops and activities, like recycling and solid waste disposal. As a social and environmental activist she fights to defend her people´s human rights and to promote gender equality. Zara represents a new generation of defenders of Comcaac territory with a deep sense of protection and conservation of their "biocultural heritage".

She is a cultural representative of Comcaac Nation and a singer, dancer, model and actress that has participated in cultural, academic and artistic events in Mexico and abroad.

Currently she is preparing the publication of her poetry book, among several musical projects and documentaries. The release her new album "Viento y Vida", consolidates at least five years of work of this young singer.

Zósimo Hernández

International consultant on racism and representative of the Nahuas indigenous peoples

He graduated in Ethnohistory from the National School of Anthropology and History. He was a staff member of United Nations in Guatemala from 1997 to 2002. He was also a federal public servant at the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples and the National Commission for Human Rights. He has been an international consultant for UNICEF on various issues around child protection. He currently serves as an independent consultant, advising state governments, indigenous peoples and the private sector regarding the right for consultation of indigenous peoples in the implementation of clean energy generation projects in Mexico. In November last year, he received the "Arturo Carrasco" award by Romel Foundation in recognition for his life time career working with indigenous peoples in Mexico.

Alexandra Aguilar Bellamy

Colloquium Organizer, Human Rights Program

She is a political scientist from the Department of Political and Social Sciences (FCPYS) at UNAM. She holds a master's degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex in England and is pursuing a PhD in Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at UNAM. In recent years, she completed a master's degree in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

She worked as senior advisor for the Ministry of Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) and later for the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL) where she designed and coordinated the National Survey of Migrant and Farm Workers and developed qualitative research to eradicate child labor in agriculture.

She has worked as a consultant for national and international organizations, designing and evaluating public policies and programs on children's rights, poverty, gender, discrimination, among others.

She is currently attached to the Human Rights Program at UNAM and is the founder of the Human Rights HUB, an initiative that promotes pedagogic and collaborative actions to address the violation of human rights and to make visible discriminatory cognitive biases in Mexican society.

She is a Faculty member at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM and has written  various publications on her working topics.

Carlos García Hernández

Universidad Iberoamericana

Carlos has a BA and MA in History from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. For eight years he has been a full-time professor at Prepa Ibero, where he works as school coordinator of History courses and is in charge of different projects regarding innovation and education, human rights and citizenship-building. From 2008 to 2012 he coordinated the history program Living History: Cultural Identities. for the History Department at Universidad Iberoamericana. He is part of the Active Creativity Laboratory (Laboratorio de Creatividad Activa), that seeks to integrate technology, art, education and social concerns into each classroom. Issues around prejudice, human rights, violence, migration, labour, among other, are discussed within the curricula. He is currently working as project coordinator at Prepa Ibero of Shared experiences / built realities, in collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves and Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. García Hernández is a member of the Small Schools Teachers Network of Facing History and Ourselves since 2012.

His recent publications include: From the experience of the Holocaust towards the transformation of a culture of tolerance (2016).

Enrique Díaz Álvarez

Cátedra Nelson Mandela

PhD  in  Philosophy  from  the  University  of  Barcelona.  Professor  and  researcher  of  the  Centro  de  Estudios  Políticos  at  the  Department of Social and Political Sciences,  UNAM.  He  is  the  author  of  the  book  El  traslado.  Narrativas  contra  la  idiotez  y  la  barbarie,  published  by  Debate  -  Penguin  Random  House  in  Mexico  (2015)  and  Spain  (2016).

He  has  published  several  chapters  and  articles  in  national  and  international  academic  journals,  and  is  a  regular  collaborator  at  other  media  such  as  Revista  de  la  Universidad  de  México,  Horizontal,  La  Tempestad  and  Confabulario  in  the  El  Universal  journal.

He  is  co-director  of Mexico-Barcelona.  Tránsito  Literario  (2005)  and  director  of  Café  con  Shandy  (2007),  documentaries  that  have  been  broadcasted  on  television  in  Spain  and  Mexico.  This  last  documentary,  produced  by  TV  UNAM,  was  published  along  with  the  book  Vila-Matas  Portatil  (Candaya,  2007).

Gustavo Ogarrio

Latin American Studies Department, Philosophy and Humanities College, UNAM

He  was  born  in  Mexico  City  in  1970.  A  Latin  American  writer  and  story  teller,  he  is  a  faculty  member  at  UNAM  ́s  Department  of    Philosophy  and  Humanities  (FFL)  and  of  History  at  Mora  Institute.  He  is  a  weekly  collaborator  of  La  Jornada  Semanal  and  Luvina,  among  other  publications.  He  is  the  author  of  the  following  books:  Gaze  of  the  wrecked  (FCE),  Minor  epics  (UNAM-EON),  Brief  history  of  transition  and  oblivion  (CIALC-UNAM),  Under  the  same  night.  Political  essays  on  Latin  American  literature  (FFyL  /  UNAM)  and  We  will  never  be  poets  (Literature  Department  /  UNAM).  He  received  his  bachelor's,  master's  and  doctorate  degrees  in  Latin  American  Studies  from  UNAM.  He  has  been  a  guest  lecturer  at  the  National  University  of  Costa  Rica,  the  Autonomous  University  of  Madrid,  at  the  Philosophy  Institute  of  the  Higher  Council  for  Scientific  Research  (CSIC)  in  Madrid,  Spain,  at  the  College  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  United  States  ,  and  at  the  University  of  York  in  Toronto,  Canada.  His  fields  of  study  are:    Chronicles  of  Latin  America,  territorial  rights  and  narratives  regarding    extractivism,  as  well  as  the  links  between  literature,  history  and  politics  in  Latin  America.

Helena Chávez Mac Gregor

Researcher at the Institute of  Aesthetic Research

She is a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas)  of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. She holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from UNAM and a Master in Contemporary Art Theory from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. From 2009 to 2013 she was the academic curator of MUAC, where she developed a Critical Theory Program. Currently, she teaches Postgraduate courses in Art History at the College of Philosophy at UNAM.

Among her curatorial projects are: "At the end of the work (Al final del trabajo)" of Simon Gush cured with Virginia Roy (Ex Teresa Arte Actual, 2018); "At night, lightning (En la noche, relámpagos)" a project with Teatro Ojo and Cuauhtémoc Medina for Draft; "Color Theory (Teoría del Color)" with Alejandra Labastida and Cuauhtémoc Medina (MUAC, 2014-2015) and "Critical Fetishes: residues of the overall economy," a project with Red Specter (Espectro Rojo), (Museum of Mexico CIty, 2011 and CA2M 2010).

Her first book "Insisting on politics. Rancière and the Aesthetics revolt" (Insitir en la política. Rancière y la revuelta de la Estética) has just been published by the IIE. Among her recent publications are "We are all in danger, a political reading of the work of Yoshua Okon" (Estamos todos en peligro, una lectura política sobre la obra de Yoshua Okón); "Nevertheless, to appear" (Pese a todo, aparecer); "Occupying the Space, the Battle for Politics" and "Necropolitics, politics as work to die” (Necropolítica, la política como trabajo de muerte).

Mireya Del Pino Pacheco

Director of Research and Public Policies, CONAPRED

She has a BA in Sociology and a Master degree in Public Policy from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM). She has worked in the field of human rights for more than 20 years with different NGOs, among these, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Center for Human Rights. In 2010, she joined the National Council to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination (CONAPRED) as an adviser to the Presidency, where she currently serves as Director of Research and Public Policies.

With CONAPRED, she has coordinated many research projects such as the National Survey of Discrimination in Mexico (ENADIS) done in 2010 and 2017 as well as the 2012 Report on Discrimination in Mexico. She was a key collaborator to include self-identification indicators for afro descendant population in the 2015 Intercensal Survey and has fought for the inclusion and recognition of rights of discriminated social groups, such as the LGTTBQ community and the Afro-descendant population. She is author and co-author of several CONAPRED documents, including th Catalog to Measure Equality (2015).

She is also jointly responsible for the formulation and implementation of the National Program to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination (PRONAIND) 2014-2018.

Paola Pedraza

PUDH

She  is  a  lawyer  from  the  Autonomous  University  of  Bucaramanga,  Colombia.  She  studied  a  Master's  Degree  in  Human  Rights  at  the  Autonomous  University  of  San  Luis  Potosí,  Mexico.

In  Colombia,  she  worked  in  different  government  institutions  such  as  the  National  Commission  of  Reparation  and  Reconciliation  and  the  Ministry  of  Agriculture  of  Santander,  serving  victims  of  the  armed  conflict  in  Colombia  on  issues  such  as  forced  displacement,  land  restitution  and  comprehensive  reparation.

In  both  Colombia  and  Mexico,  she  has  worked  with  different  civil  society  organizations  on  issues  of  human  rights  pedagogy,  human  trafficking  and  comprehensive  sexual  education  with  girls,  boys,  adolescents  and  women  in  situations  of  vulnerability.

Currently,  she  is  linked  to  the  Human Rights Hub  in  Human  Rights,  a  research  project  of  the  UNAM  Human  Rights  University  Program,  which  seeks  to  a)  promote  innovation  in  applied  research  and  promote  solutions  in  the  field  of  human  rights  from  a  multidisciplinary  perspective  and  linked  with  new  technologies;  b)  expose  the  correlation  between  discrimination  and  violation  of  human  rights  by  generating  tools  to  identify  unconscious  cognitive  biases;  and  c)  develop  prevention  and  training  programs  to  strengthen  the  exercise  and  defense  of  DH  of  vulnerable  or  at-risk  populations.

Rodrigo Gutiérrez

Researcher, Institute of Legal Research

He  holds  a  degree  in  Political  Science  and  Public  Administration  from UNAM  ́s  Department  of  Political  Science.  He  pursued  a  graduate  degree  of  Political  Science  and  Constitutional  Law  at  the  Center  for  Constitutional  Studies  of  Madrid.  Later  he  received  a  PhD  in  Law  from  the  Complutense  University  of  Madrid.

Currently,  he  is  a  full-time  researcher  at  the  Institute  of  Legal  Research  (UNAM),  where  he  coordinates  the  Human  Rights  Area.  He  is  a  member  of  the  National  System  of  Researchers  Level  I  and  Professor  of  Constitutional  Law  at  UNAM  and  other  universities.

He  has  coordinated  several  collective  research  projects  on  human  rights  and  the  Supreme  Court  appointed  him  expert  in  cases  of  indigenous  peoples  and  human  rights.  He  is  author  of:  Right  to  freedom  of  expression  versus  the  right  to  non-discrimination:  tensions,  relationships  and  implications  (2008)  and  coordinator  of  Equality,  non-discrimination  and  social  rights:  a  virtuous  relationship  (2011).