#  Paula Lezama 

University of Texas, Austin

 

 

 



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 Paula Lezama is a second-year doctoral student of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She holds a MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of South Florida, and a BA in Economics from Universidad del Valle, Colombia. She has various intersecting interests, but mainly racial and ethnic disparities with a focus on Afro-descendants in the Americas, particularly Colombia and Brazil. From a theoretical standpoint, she seeks to understand how a feminist decolonial perspective informs alternative understandings of wellbeing, poverty, and equity. From an empirical perspective she is interested in mixed methods and looking at the different ways in which the ancestral practices of Afrodescendant and Indigenous communities living in collective territories subvert capitalist ruination and in the Wynterian sense, expand our praxis of being human.



 

 

 





 

 

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