Edna Martínez is a social and political activist from Colombia. She lives in Berlin and received her PhD in Sociology at the Free University of Berlin on the continuity of primitive accumulation, using as an example the oil palm industry in the territories of black communities on the border of Colombia and Ecuador. She was a fellow of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and her doctoral dissertation received the – ‘Young Researchers’ Award from Peter Lang Publishing House in 2016. Her postdoctoral work ‘Women’s political subjectivity’ analyzes the motivations of peasant women to join the former FARC-EP guerrilla in Colombia. In Germany she worked with the organization Women in Exile and was co-founder and president of LAFI (Latin American Women’s Initiative in Berlin). She is a reference for political analysis on Latin America, anti-racism and feminism in Germany. She is a boxing trainer, and uses ‘bexeo’ as a strategy to build community and empower women* BIPoC in Berlin.

* in fact she is writing a PhD on this.