Malunga in the world

Roberto Zurbano

Cuban essayist, editor, and cultural critic. Expert in literature, race, and alternative music. Member of UNEAC, LASA, and ARAC. Author of Elogio del lector and Los Estados Nacientes. Works at the Center for Literary Research of Casa de las Américas in Havana.

Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés

Anthropologist from the University of Cauca and Master in Sociology from FLACSO Ecuador. She is the director of the Observatory Against Racism at the University of Los Andes, Colombia. Her work focuses on structural racism, social movements, and critical Afro studies.

Tanya Katerí Hernandez

Coordinator of the Liberating Knowledge Line

Jurist and professor at Fordham Law School. Specialist in anti-discrimination law and comparative racial studies. Author of Racial Innocence and Multiracials and Civil Rights. She has been a researcher at Princeton, Yale, and the Schomburg Center. Member of the American Law Institute.

Yolandé Bouka

PhD in International Relations from American University. Professor at Queen’s University with a research focus on gender, African politics, and violence. She has worked in Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya, and has received Fulbright and SSHRC scholarships. Her book analyzes transitional justice in Rwanda. She has also advised on development and peace in Africa.

Yoseth Ariza Araújo

Director of CEAF and professor at Icesi University, in Colombia. Physician with a master’s degree in Epidemiology. He researches ethnic-racial inequalities in health with an anti-racist approach. Doctoral candidate in health at the Universidad del Valle, studies the impact of COVID-19 on the Afro-Colombian population with an anti-racist approach. Doctoral candidate in health at the Universidad del Valle, studies the impact of COVID-19 on the Afro-Colombian population

Yuderkys Espinosa

Decolonial philosopher and feminist, anti-racist writer and researcher. Associate professor and adjunct researcher at FLACSO-Dominican Republic and Argentina, as well as academic coordinator and professor in the Online Program of Andean Thought and Decolonial Feminism of GLEFAS/IDECA.

Yuliana Ortiz Ruano

Ecuadorian poet and writer. Author of several books of poetry and the novel Fiebre de carnaval (Carnival Fever) (2022), which won an award in Italy. Editor at Cráneo de Pangea, she has been recognized for her outstanding literary voice in Latin America.