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Dr. Aurora Vergara Figueroa, former Minister of Education of Colombia, holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Winner of the Martin Diskin Award from LASA (Latin American Studies Association) for a doctoral dissertation that integrates activism and rigorous knowledge production in the 2014 call.
2021-2022, W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow, Harvard University.
Nominated as one of the 20 top leaders in Colombia by Semana magazine and the Leadership and Democracy Foundation in 2016.
Director of the Center for Afro-Diasporic Studies (CEAF) from 2013 to 2022. Professor in the Department of Social Studies at Universidad Icesi from 2012 to 2022.
She is an anthologist, compiler, and author of books such as Demanding My Freedom: Black Women and Their Resistance Strategies in New Granada, Venezuela, and Cuba, 1700-1800 (2018, Universidad Icesi Press); Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia: Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó (2017, Palgrave Macmillan); Decolonizing Worlds: Contributions of Black Intellectuals to Colombian Social Thought (2017, CLACSO).
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