Juana Francis Bone (Mujeres de Asfalto Collective):  I am a black woman, feminist and anti-racist activist, who travels between mixtures of urban and rural realities. I faithfully believe in the possibility of making a better society. I am part of the Mujeres de Asfalto Collective as well as the Re-existencia Cimarrunas. "Everything is political and everything is personal."

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Claudia Cortez (Mujeres de Asfalto Collective): I'm a professional digital photographer, specialising in portraits and photographic documentary records. I also work with audiovisual recording, creating documentary videos and taking care of post-production. I have always been drawn to documentary cinema, and I hope to continue improving day by day.

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Sofia Zaragocin (Universidad San Francisco de Quito): Sofia has a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and is currently professor-researcher at the University of San Francisco in Quito (Ecuador). Her research focuses on decolonial feminist geography and processes of racialisation of space. She has written about death-body-territory processes in cross-border spaces, the politics of the uterus in spaces of slow death, and the mapping of the criminalisation of abortion in Ecuador, among other topics. She is part of the Critical Geography Collective of Ecuador and the Reexistencias Cimarrunas Collective.

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Katy Jenkins: (Northumbria University): Katy is Professor of International Development at Northumbria University, and Principal Investigator for the RECLAMA project. She leads on all aspects of the project design and implementation. She is a Development Geographer whose research focuses on gender and resource extraction in Latin America, with an emphasis on feminist and participatory methodologies.

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Inge Boudewijn (Northumbria University):  I'm a post-doctoral research fellow at Northumbria University. I'm interested in interdisciplinary academic work and draw upon sociology, anthropology and geography, as well as creative and participatory methodologies. During my PhD work, I had the chance to work with women anti-mining activists in Peru.