Mariana is a political scientist with a minor in history from the Universidad del Rosario and with a graduate diploma in feminist and gender studies from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her research interests include the implementation of intercultural and situated perspectives for the collective construction of knowledge and fairer futures. Thematically, she is interested in care, in processes of racialization and ethnization, in collective action, in sexual violence, and community justice initiatives by indigenous, afro-descendant and mestizo women.