Morna Macleod is a researcher and lecturer in the postgraduate program in Social Science at the Autonomous State University of Morelos (UAEM). She has a master’s and doctorate in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her MA thesis was a comparative study on political repression in Chile and Guatemala. She was a human rights worker first with Chile (from London) and then with Guatemala (from Mexico) in the late 1970s, early 1980s. She lived in Guatemala from 1995-2001. Her publications include: “Development or Devastation? Epistemologies of Mayan Women’s Resistance to an Open-Pit Goldmine in Guatemala” in AlterNative, Auckland, Volume 11, Issue 6, 2016, Nietas del Fuego, Creadoras del Alba. Luchas político-culturales de mujeres mayas (FLACSO-Guatemala, 2011), Poder Local: Reflexiones sobre Guatemala (1996). She is currently working on multiple violence in Morelos, Mexico.