Yaatsil Guevara González holds a PhD in sociology from Bielefeld University. She has worked at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas) at the University of Mainz, at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University), and at the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University. She recently coordinated the research project “African Trajectories across Central America” funded by the German Research Foundation.

Katrin Metzger is a Ph.D. student at the University of Kassel. In her dissertation project, she investigates interactions between corporate, state and local actors in the context of resource extraction in Chile and Bolivia. She studied Latin American and Ancient American Studies and German as a Second and Foreign Language at the University of Bonn and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, as well as Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Marburg.

Sabrina Fernandes has a PhD in Sociology and a Master's in Political Economy from Carleton University, Canada. She is currently a fellow with CALAS at the University of Guadalajara. Previously, a Full Collaborating Researcher at the University of Brasília, visiting researcher with the Latin American Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, senior research fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, and a fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.