Intellectual militant involved in the processes and struggles for justice and social transformation, first in the United States (where she had the opportunity, among other activities, to work alongside community activists and Paulo Freire) and in the last 20 years, in Latin America and Ecuador, where she has a long trajectory being involved in indigenous and Afro-descendant social movements. She is currently a senior professor and founding director of the doctoral program in Latin America (Inter)Cultural Studies at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Ecuador.