Jochen Kemner is the Scientific Manager of the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in Guadalajara, Mexico. After completing a master's degree in history, economics, and Spanish and Latin American studies (Bielefeld University), and a state examination for teaching History and Spanish (University of Paderborn) he earned his doctorate History (University Bielefeld) in 2006. He subsequently worked in several post-doc projects and departments at Bielefeld University and was a regular lecturer at the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe.

Associate Researcher at the Department of Sociology of the Leibniz University in Hanover and Professor-Researcher at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales in Ecuador. She is currently researching the situation and contribution of immigrants in Ecuador, based on the collection of quantitative and qualitative data on discrimination and access to rights, with the purpose of establishing a scientific basis for the elaboration of Inclusion Policies.

She holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences for the Formulation of Public Policies, awarded by the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. She is a doctoral student in Social Sciences at Universidad de Guadalajara, conducting her research “Social Capital in Extreme Violence Contexts. An Analysis through Forms of Citizen Response”.

Natalia Quiceno Toro (Doctor in Social Anthropology. National Museum. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Regional Studies of the University of Antioquia. She is attached to the research group Culture, violence, and territory. Her works focus on topics such as forced mobility, exile, memory, ethnographies of violence, and political transitions. In the last 10 years, she has worked with Afro-Colombian victims' collectives in the North Pacific region of Colombia.