Afro-Caribbean writer, researcher and teacher. One of the forerunners of decolonial feminism and direct disciple of María Lugones. Her contribution points to a critique of the "coloniality of feminist reason" and the production of worlds centered on relationship and complementarity. Director of the Caribbean Institute of Decolonial Thought and Research (INCAPID/GLEFAS) and founding member of the Latin American Group for Feminist Studies, Training and Action (GLEFAS). For several years she has been carrying out research on Memory of Resistance with a group of community leaders from areas of marronage in the northern part of Santo Domingo and for more than 30 years she has been promoting popular and community training processes both locally and internationally.
She is the author of numerous essays and academic texts, as well as editor of several key compilations of decolonial feminism. Her works have been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Portuguese. Among her most recent publications are Decolonial Feminism in Latin America: An Essential Anthology (Hypathia, 2022); Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges, co-edited with María Lugones and Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022); On Why a Decolonial Feminism is Necessary (Icaria, 2022); Decolonial Feminism: New Theoretical-Methodological Contributions More than a Decade On (On the Border, 2023, 2nd Ed.). In 2020 her collection of poems Laquevuelve was published (Anticanon, 2020).

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