Anthropologist (BA, MA) and Global Health Researcher (MSc) with over a decade of experience in Participatory Action Research (PAR) with marginalized communities in Colombia. Focused on diversity and social justice, she collaborates with activists and grassroots organizations to develop research and interventions that influence public policy and ensure health and wellbeing. Her research spans various topics, including mental health and collective care strategies, traditional medicine and gender, commodification of indigenous spirituality, drug use and harm reduction, sex work and stigma, health access for LGBTIQ populations, decolonization of humanitarian action and the NGO industrial complex. With a PAR approach, most of her research involves the tailoring of methodologies to the needs and formats of communities to ensure participation and dissemination, prioritizing the use of audiovisual tools, participatory strategies, ethnography, social cartography techniques, among others.
As part of her PhD research, her current work emphasizes collectivizing health strategies, including a collaboration with trans human rights defenders and collective mental healthcare in Colombia, and a case in Argentina focused on collective care and community clinics for trans populations.
Research groups and networks:
Gender in Research Network, VU
Amsterdam UMC-Participatory Research & Co-creation SIG.
