Celina is an organiser and militant who works with the institute’s publications, English-language editing, and translations. Before joining Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, she worked in the labour movement with the Service Employees International Union and the Fight for 15 as an organiser, union representative, and shop steward and was an editor and photographer for Humans of St. Louis. She has been an active participant in the fight for social, economic, and racial justice in the streets from Missouri to Massachusetts.

Pilar is a militant and researcher. She is an Ecuadorian feminist anthropologist and has a master’s degree in women and gender studies. Her main areas of interest are social public policies, especially concerning gender equality and the feminist movement. Her activism began in college as part of the student movement and she was involved in the Women’s Assembly in Quito. She worked as a researcher with the System of Social Indicators (SIISE) and the Latin America Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), where she also taught classes on public policies and social indicators. She then served as an advisor to the Ministry of National Planning and as an advisor and Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Ecuador. She coordinates the feminisms working group of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Dafne is a psychoanalyst and translator living in São Paulo, Brazil. She has undergraduate degrees in journalism (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo) and history (University of São Paulo) and a postgraduate degree in psychoanalysis (Sedes Sapientiae Institute). She worked at Brasil de Fato as a journalist from 2004 and 2011 and lived in Argentina for four years, where she participated in the founding of the popular communication vehicles Marcha and Notas – periodismo popular. She was an activist with Consulta Popular (Brazil), Frente Popular Darío Santillán (Argentina), and Movimento Patria Grande (Argentina). In addition to translating for Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, she has translated books in the human and social sciences. Currently, she also studies the relations between gender, neoliberalism, the social reproduction of life, and psychological suffering.

Luiz is a journalist who is responsible for communications in Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research’s Brazil office. He worked in the communications sector of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) for five years, contributing to the movement’s public relations and press outreach. He was also an editor of the MST’s website and the Jornal Sem Terra (‘Landless Journal’).  He worked for the journal Brasil de Fato for four years as an associate editor, also assisting in the coordination and political guidance for the Center of Popular Media (CPMídias).

Ajit is a lawyer, researcher, and writer whose work focuses on US foreign policy towards China and ongoing developments in the New Cold War. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Western Ontario and currently contributes to the institute’s English-language editing and publications.

Mika is an educator and researcher. She is part of the Pan Africanism Today Secretariat, which coordinates the regional articulation of the International People’s Assembly and is also part of the No Cold War coordination committee, a peace platform promoting multilateralism and maximum global cooperation. She is also part of Dongsheng, an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society, and hosts The Crane: An Africa-China Podcast.

Efemia is an editor and has worked in publishing for a decade. She is an MA candidate at Wits University, where her research sits at the intersection of queer studies and African studies, looking at lesbian, bisexual, and queer communities in Zambia. She manages publishing at Inkani Books.

Tings is an artist, writer, and organiser whose work contributes to popular struggles across the Global South. Her current research focuses on the art of national liberation struggles. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto and is the author and illustrator of Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention (2017). She leads the art department of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Ingrid is an artist and graduate of Communication and Multimedia Studies from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She interned at the PUC-SP and worked at Anhembi Morumbi University (UAM), where she specialised in the production of educational videos and animations. She is currently a designer with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Born in Buenos Aires, Daniela is a teacher of visual arts, an illustrator, a designer, and a creator of fanzines. Her visual production focuses oncomics, graphic design, and illustration, collaborating – especially in the latter – with worker cooperatives and empresas recuperadas (companies that have been reclaimed by and are run by workers). She works with self-managed book and fanzine-producing collectives as an editor and author and participates in organising meetings and exhibitions of independent Argentine comic strips. She is part of the art department of Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research and is responsible for art and design for the Buenos Aires Office

Luciana is a high school teacher and militant in Argentina. She has participated in various political movements since 2009, organising alongside students and education workers. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication studies, which she also teaches. Through her studies and teaching, she has developed her knowledge of youth and their connection to information and new technology.

Luiz is a journalist who is responsible for communications in Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research’s Brazil office. He worked in the communications sector of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) for five years, contributing to the movement’s public relations and press outreach. He was also an editor of the MST’s website and the Jornal Sem Terra (‘Landless Journal’).  He worked for the journal Brasil de Fato for four years as an associate editor, also assisting in the coordination and political guidance for the Center of Popular Media (CPMídias).

Efemia is an editor and has worked in publishing for a decade. She is an MA candidate at Wits University, where her research sits at the intersection of queer studies and African studies, looking at lesbian, bisexual, and queer communities in Zambia. She manages publishing at Inkani Books.

Pindiga Ambedkar received his MPhil from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he focused his studies on issues faced by the oppressed classes (specifically, the lower castes or Dalits) in science and technology institutes in India. As a student, P. Ambedkar was an active member of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and was elected as the Vice-President of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Students’ Union (2007-08) while pursuing his Master’s. In addition to his research, P. Ambedkar is engaged with Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (“the Platform for Liberation of the Oppressed” in English), which fights against caste discrimination. Prior to joining the Tricontinental, he worked as a correspondent with NewsClick, a web-based journal headquartered in New Delhi.

Atul is a postgraduate from the University of Delhi. He has been a student and youth activist since 2007. While pursuing his bachelor’s degree, he was elected as the central councilor of the University of Delhi student union (2009–2010). Prior to joining Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Atul worked as a field investigator for the Right to Food Campaign, focusingon the themes of human bondage, land alienation, and hunger death among Sahariya tribes in Rajasthan. Between 2013–2017, he coordinated and organised various activities and research work as a researcher and project assistant in collaboration with the South Asian University and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (South Asia).

Tariro has extensive experience in finance and operations. She works in different capacities to support organisations and movements on the African continent that are focused on facilitating community and societal engagement, education, advancing and promoting social justice, human rights, and furthering democracy and equality.

Ursula is a Chilean feminist and defender of human rights. As the president of the Providencia Human Rights Coordinating Committee and a cofounder of the Observatory on Human Rights and Political Violence, she worked to condemn national and international human rights violations that took place during Chile’s political uprising from 2019 to 2020. Ursula was also an advisor during Chile’s constitutional process, where she founded and oversaw the Plurinational Union of Workers of the Constitutional Convention. She has a degree in social work.

Soledad is an event manager, cultural facilitator, and researcher who focuses on organising seminars, book launches, and international conferences across diverse fields, with special attention to the social sciences, human rights, and women’s rights. She has engaged in research and editing work at the Institut Universitari d’Estudis Europeus in Barcelona and at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York on El Salvador’s legislation on abortion. She holds a Master’s in International Studies from the University of Chile and an LLB from the University of Warwick. She has lived in the US, Italy, England, Mexico, and Brazil.

Amílcar is a graphic designer and self-taught web developer as well as a hacker in spirit. He has a long history of collaborating with various kinds of organisations in web development and technology across the world including Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Germany, Australia, and Mexico. He has a strong interest in the intersection between technology and politics and coordinates the technology department of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Daniel is a systems administrator, professor, samba dancer, poet, and political scientist. He has worked with open source software and with the Linux community. Parallel to his work as a computer scientist, he received his master’s degree in political science, became a popular educator, and, in 2021, launched his first book of poems, entitled Florecimientos (‘Blossoms’). With this hybrid trajectory, he found in the Tricontinental a promising space for his professional development.