Anthropologist Summa Cum Laude from the Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia, with minors in Gender and Sexuality, Creative Writing, and Photography. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in “Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement” at New York University (NYU), working as the program coordinator for the Colombian Studies Initiative and volunteering as interpreter for the Asylum Support Clinic in New York City.
She has experience in writing and editing texts, image construction, participatory methodologies with intersectional approaches, and social research. She is interested in museums as sites for transdisciplinary dialogue and seeks intersections between materialities, crafts, migration, gender, and oral history, among others. At the moment, she is conducting research on contemporary manifestations of “costureros” -sewing, knitting, repair and embroidery circles- led by migrant women.
From 2023-2024 she worked as an Artist-In-Residence at the Magdalena River Museum, where she conducted ethnographic and photographic research exploring the lives and stories of rocking chairs, culminating in an exhibition at said museum titled “Mecer, Mecer y Me-ser en el Magdalena”. The exhibition focused on themes of movement, repair, materials, and crafts from Honda to Mompox, two key ports along the course of Colombia’s longest river. Afterwards, she collaborated with the museum in curating “Photographies and Revelations of the High Magdalena River” and “The Dual Jungle: Mother and Devourer at Once” in 2024. She has also been an Artist-in-Residence in Casa Taller El Boga, where she began the ethnographic fieldwork that fed the exhibition.
In addition, she was a feminist and student activist, and worked as the coordinator of the collective “It’s Not Normal” at Los Andes University from 2018-2022, where she led marches, reading groups and talks around gender studies and gender-based violence, and edited the blog of the collective in the magazine “070”. During that time, she published the zine “Memorias andantes: historias del proceso fundacional de la colectiva feminista y estudiantil ‘No es Normal’” that gathered the founding memories of one of the oldest feminist and student collectives in the city.