Panamanian social and cultural anthropologist, educated in Mexico (UAM,1983; UNAM, 1990). In Panama she works in her country in socio-cultural promotion in relation to young people (USAID-FOIDM, 2012). She is recognized in public and academic spaces, both national and regional, as a critical voice on broad-ranging issues related to gender, ethnicity, the rights of children and adolescents, indigenous rights, violence, inclusion, interculturality, city and territories. In order to define public policies on Afro-descendants and youth in her country, she prepared the National Diagnosis of the Situation of Afro-Panamanian Women, involving more than 200 Afro-Panamanian women who live in different areas and social contexts in a participatory research exercise (UNDP /INAMU, February-December 2019).