Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of British Columbia) is a professor at the Institute of Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and co-director of the Memory and Justice program. Her academic work explores issues related to memories, social reparation, orality, performance, and mass violence. She was a researcher for the Group of Historical Memory of Colombia and advisor to the Museum of Historical Memory in Colombia. Pilar leads three projects: “Memoria Transformativa: Fortaleciendo una red internacional” (Transformative Memory: Strengthening an international network) with Erin Baines (UBC); “Exhumaciones y entierros en Colombia. Fortaleciendo las practicas forenses” (Exhumations and burials in Colombia. Strengthening forensic practices), with the Committee for the Rights of the Victims of Medio Atrato, and “Responsabilidades Sagradas con el agua. Intercambios indígenas de conocimiento (Canadá-Colombia)” (Sacred Responsibilities with water. Indigenous knowledge exchanges (Canada-Colombia) with Aimée Craft.