National Pedagogical University
Institutional description
The National Pedagogical University is the institution that engages in dialogue from Colombia around these tensions given its experiences and trajectories in research and projects associated with the topics of inclusion, gender equity, critical interculturality, anti-racism, decolonization of knowledge and epistemic justice, among others.
Team members
Principal Investigator
Sonia Mireya Torres Rincón
PhD
I am a teacher and a feminist. I am a historian, hold a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies, and a PhD in Gender Studies. My work focuses on gender studies, interculturality, and intersectionality in education.
Since 2015, along with other teachers and students, I have participated in the creation of the Gender Committee, linked to the Peace Initiative (2015-2019). Since 2020, I have coordinated the Institutional Gender Committee of the National Pedagogical University (UPN), where I have been part of the collective development of various processes and documents aimed at institutional transformation. These include the Protocol for the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence at the UPN (2020, updated in 2023), the Institutional Gender and Care Policy (2022), currently undergoing participatory consultation for approval by the University Council (CSU), and the report Gender Equality and Equity: How are we doing at the UPN? (2022).
Researchers
Adriana Chacón Chacón
PhD
I am a daughter and heir to a public education, which instilled in me a deep indignation toward injustice. I am a captivated listener of ancestral and rural stories and tales. I have nurtured my children through literature, books, and reading, striving to cultivate humanity and sensitivity. I am a philologist and researcher in the Department of Languages at the National Pedagogical University of Colombia. I coordinate the Fepaite Angayusa Research Group (GIFA). My research interests include narratives, political emotions, academic and intercultural literacies, and the decolonization of being and knowing.
Carolina García Ramírez
PhD
A linguist by training, a teacher by vocation, a weaver and embroiderer by heritage, and an antiracist and antisexist at heart. I am a professor and researcher in the Department of Languages at the UPN (National Pedagogical University), coordinator of the Fepaite Angayusa Research Group and its research cohort, and a member of the weaving collective Hilemos la palabra (Let’s Weave the Word), a community-based and feminist initiative that seeks to reclaim textile knowledge and practices as alternative ways of embodying stories through threads, words, and re-existences. My research interests include reflections on antiracist and intercultural pedagogies, the decoloniality of gender, and the decoloniality of language.
Angie Linda Benavides Cortés
PhD
I am Angie Linda Benavides Cortés, a woman, mother, and teacher. I am involved in Indigenous education processes (indigenous education) in the Cauca region, as well as in intercultural education processes in Bogotá. For the past 18 years, I have been a teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Education of the National Pedagogical University and a member of the Equity and Diversity in Education research group. I received my Master’s degree in Education and my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Pedagogy from the same university. I have also participated in various training programs for teachers in training, focusing on intercultural perspectives and epistemic justice. I am currently pursuing a Doctorate in Intercultural Higher Education in the context of Buen Vivir (Good Living) at URACCAN, UAIIN, and Oslo MET.
Support staff
Angelica Nathalia Ramirez Calderon
PhD
I am Nathalia Ramírez, an intersectional feminist, lesbian, anti-racist, and a student at the Fepaite Angayusa (GIFA) research group. I inhabit the world of words like a traveler: I move between words, stories, and silences. I identify as a writer and digital illustrator, seeking to explore sensitive ways of speaking and resisting. My pseudonym is Amaranta.
I am a graduate in Audiovisual Media Production from the National Learning Service (SENA). I have worked in research as a monitor for the MERAWI group at the National Pedagogical University, and currently for the journal Polifonías . My writing has also found a place in collective works: I have contributed to the anthologies Tejedoras de memorias femeninas (2023) and Mosaico de mujeres (2024), published in collaboration with the Casa de la Mujer in Bogotá; as well as to Antología I of the independent Mexican publisher Salto al Reverso (2018). In addition, I published an article in the journal Pesquisa of the Francisco Morazán National Pedagogical University in Honduras (2025).