ABOUT US

Sukuamis, is a pur'epecha (indigenous community from the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico) word that refers to witches, that is, people who have wisdom and knowledge to bring about healing.

We are feminist activists from different corners of Latin America, dedicated to healing, transforming, co-creating, inquiring, and analyzing in harmony from the personal to the collective.

We work to strengthen the hearts, voices and actions of social movements and organizations through comprehensive, holistic, innovative and inspiring strategies that increase our strength to build the world we dream: a loving, just, caring and equitable world where our diverse identities are celebrated with the earth and all beings.

Perla

Perla is a Mexican feminist and human rights defender. Her passion and work has focused on economic justice especially for social movements in the global majority (global south).

She accompanies organisational processes from an integral feminist approach of accompaniment based on popular education.

Laura

Laura is a is a cuir (queer) Colombian feminist activist sprouting collective action through the power of storytelling. Her activism began through her work within the immigrant and refugee rights movement and expanded across feminist and intersecting social movements. She finds inspiration in social movements, collective care, art, and those that root themselves in solidarity, hope, and love.

Alejandro

Ale is Mexican activist and human rights defender, with a degree in International Relations. For fifteen years he has been working with and for youth rights and the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and young people in Mexico and Latin America.

Nancy

Nancy is a feminist organisational psychologist, specialist in psychocorporal work, crisis intervention and psychotrauma. Expert in integral feminist accompaniment for more than 20 years with women human rights defenders, women victims of violence, victims of crime, law enforcement officials and therapists.

ELIZABETH

Elizabeth has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Science with a specialisation in sustainable agricultural production. She is an Indigenous P'urhépecha woman. She has a diploma in gender and feminism from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, and is passionate about embroidery, from where she plans to build an economic justice project for the women embroiderers of Cherán.

Tania

Tania is Mexican, feminist, human rights defender, sexual dissident, she is an anthropologist and historian, specialist in organisational processes from a feminist approach, experience and expertise in working with indigenous peoples. She accompanies to strengthen grassroots organisations and collectives, and supports monitoring and evaluation of processes. She has collaborated in projects and processes with Tojolabal, Purhépecha and Rarámuri Indigenous women.

MONTSERRAT C.

Montserrat has a degree in Politics and Social Management from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM-XOC). She has worked in various civil society organizations dedicated to the defense and promotion of human rights. Her experience includes fundraising, accompaniment to victims, dialogue with authorities and institutional strengthening.

ARIADNA EVELYN A.

Exploradora y curiosa de lo que es, siente, y puede un cuerpo, el relato vivo con el cual tocamos la vida. Narradora multimedia y practicante narrativa. Combina sus conocimientos sobre las artes, los feminismos, las narrativas, y las pedagogías del movimiento sensible para facilitar y acompañar espacios de encuentro y exploración para comunidades, y organizaciones e individuas, con el fin de recuperar el deseo vital de crear, reimaginar, vivir y renarrar la vida a través de proceso creativos. Mujer rizomatica, cuya medicina la haya en el movimiento consciente del cuerpo.

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Tania R.

Tania has a degree in Social Work from the National School of Social Work of the UNAM and a Master's Degree in Clinical and Forensic Psychotraumatology. She has the Certification of Competence in the Standard EC0308 Training for public servants in and from the approach of Equality between women and men. She has coordinated several training processes for the staff of civil society agencies and organizations on topics such as human rights, public policy, gender perspective, mental health, differential approaches, context analysis, among others.

Xiomara C.

Xiomara is an Afro-Costa Rican consultant with over 17 years of experience advancing racial and gender justice across Latin America, the Caribbean, and across regions. She has collaborated with leading feminist funds, philanthropic networks, and movement-led organizations, including the Black Feminist Fund, Global Fund for Women, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism, Gender Funders CoLab, Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds, Fenomenal Funds and the Central America & Mexico Youth Fund, providing participatory research, program design, strategic facilitation, and organizational strengthening through intersectional and decolonial frameworks. She has guided multinational diagnostics, expert convenings, and political education spaces, building bridges between philanthropy and grassroots movements while centering community led approaches. Fluent in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, she integrates popular education, healing justice approaches, and arts-based facilitation to foster collective care and transformative organizational strategies.

Luis R.

social anthropologist from UAM--Iztapalapa, currently studying a law degree at the UNAM.

cATHERINE

Catherine Dousdebes es una artista visual colombiana egresada de La Pontificia Universidad Javeriana con máster en Periodismo de La Universidad del Rosario. Actualmente ejerce como ilustradora e historietista bajo el seudónimo de Pizza Hawaiiana. Ha trabajado para editoriales y medios nacionales e internacionales. Su trabajo personal narra historias personales basadas en su cotidianidad y experiencias.

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