Claire is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has conducted long-term fieldwork in Argentina for her dissertation “Ineffective Laws, Active Citizens: Demanding Justice for Femicide in Argentina,” that explores the Argentine movement against femicide and how activist discourse and ideology is translated into law.

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Dabney Evans, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Global Health in Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. She is a mixed-methods researcher focused on the health and human rights of women and girls. Dr. Evans received her Master of Public Health degree in 1998 from Emory University and her doctoral degree in law from the University of Aberdeen (UK) in 2011. Dr. Evans’ current research projects focus on gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her global research portfolio includes projects on: intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic (US); the commercial sexual exploitation of children (US); femicide prevention (Brazil); and femicide perpetration (Argentina). Dr. Evans has published over forty book chapters, scholarly articles and commissioned works; she has made over 200 peer-reviewed and invited presentations. Her public scholarship has appeared in the Pacific Standard, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ms. Magazine and The Hill, where she is a regular contributor; in 2015 she presented a TEDx talk.

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Martín Hernán Di Marco is a sociologist and epidemiologist, and currently a PhD candidate from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. He has teaching positions in Buenos Aires University and La Matanza National University. He has been awarded grants and scholarships from SVRI, Colef and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, amongst other instituciones. He conducts research on violence, masculinities and violent deaths, by studying the biographies of perpetrators.

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Dolores Figueroa Romero is a researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. Dr. Figueroa’s academic expertise focuses on conceptualizing structural, social and extreme violence against indigenous women in rural areas and critically dialoguing with the anti-racist feminist advocacy work in Mexico. During the last two years, she was part of an initiative aimed at creating networks between social researchers, technicians and indigenous women’s organizations, such as the National Coordination of Indigenous Women of Mexico (CONAMI) to strengthen their community initiative called “Community Emergency of Violence” to build a database to document various types of violence that impact indigenous women and their peoples in various regions of Mexico.

Dr. Figueroa has published numerous articles in refereed academic journals and chapters in edited volumes on violence against indigenous women in Guerrero, such as: “Defensoras comunitarias, violencias múltiples y búsqueda de justicia en territorios indígenas Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero” 2020, with María Teresa Sierra and Marisol Alcocer; “Anti-Manual for conducting workshops with survivors of grave human rights violations through a territorial and participatory focus”; with Teresa Sierra Camacho (2020) “Alertas de género y mujeres indígenas: interpelando las políticas públicas desde los contextos comunitarios en Guerrero, México,” in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies; (2019) “Políticas de Feminicidio en México: Perspectivas interseccionales de mujeres indígenas para reconsiderar su definición teórica-legal y las metodología de recolección de datos” in Journal of International Women’s Studies.

Laura Hernández Pérez is an Indigenous woman of Nahua roots, with a migrant mother and father who came to live in the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico. She graduated in Social Work with an internship in the Specialization in Models of Intervention with Young People (National School of Social Work at UNAM). She is currently a member of the Yehcoa Um Collective, central region, coordinator of the Collegiate General Coordination of the National Coordinator of Indigenous WomenCONAMI Mexico, and focal point of the Mexico Region of the Continental Link of Indigenous Women of the Americas ECMIA.

ISarah is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Literature, and Criticism in the University of Idaho’s Theatre Arts Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama with a minor in Folklore and a Ph.D. Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Indiana University. Her article, “‘La conjura de Xinum’ and Language Revitalization: Understanding Maya Agency through Theatre,” was recently published in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. Sarah’s research interests include contemporary Yucatec Maya language theatre and how theatre is used as part of the anti-feminicidio movement in Mexico. As a theatre practitioner, Sarah has worked as an actor, director, in publicity and marketing, and as a dramaturg. She is especially passionate about new play development.tem description

ItemSonia Madrigal lives and works in Nezahualcóyotl (Estado de México). Her work explores different visual narratives that reflect, personally and collectively, on the body, violence and territory, focusing mainly on the East of the State of Mexico. She studied Computer Science at UNAM. She attended the 2016 Photographic Production Seminar of the Image Center under the mentorship of Verónica Gerber Bicecci. She has been part of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA since 2020. She was awarded a scholarship to carry out a residency at the Meeting of Critical Geography and Autonomous Geography Collectives (Ecuador, 2019). She has participated in exhibitions both in Mexico and abroad, and published her work in media such as Harper’s Magazine (New York, 2020), Aperture Magazine (New York, 2019 and 2021) and the British newspaper The Guardian (England, 2017). description

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