Mariana Olisa is Brazilian, trained in journalism and has a postgraduate in Communication Strategies at the UAB. She is a contributor to Afroféminas and Píkara Magazine, she participated in the book “Cuando somos el enemigo – El activismo negro en España” in 2019. Since 2018 she is part of the programme “África subsahariana en un mundo multipolar”, offered by the Universitat de Barcelona in its programme Gaudir UB. In it, she teaches about Black Feminisms, Intersectionality and symbolic violence. She is also the brains behind the Afrofeminist Collective of Barcelona, a self-managed project that seeks the intellectual empowerment of black women and their community since 2017.