The Team

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research has a global presence with teams all over the world, producing research and printed materials, working closely with popular movements and other progressive organisations.

Vijay Prashad

Executive Director

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad (born 1967 in Calcutta, India) is a historian and journalist who is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, an inter-movement research institute of the Global South associated with the International Peoples Assembly. His weekly newsletter from the institute reaches almost two million people. He is the author of over forty books, most recently (with Grieve Chelwa) How the International Monetary Fund Suffocates Africa (2026) and the two award winning histories The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2007) and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (2013). Prashad has twice been awarded the Muzaffar Ahmed Prize.

To reach Vijay for an interview, event, research, writing, or other request, please write to [email protected].

Regional Coordinators

Ghassane Koumiya

Arab region

Ghassane Koumiya

Ghassane is a researcher and the director of education and programming at the Zetkin Forum for Social Research in Berlin. He is also a professor of translation with a PhD in cultural anthropology, a political anthropologist, and an activist who has worked on grassroots, political, and popular movements from the Maghreb region. Ghassane has written articles and studies on grassroots, political, and popular movements in the Middle East and North Africa and is active in the trade union and human rights movements in Morocco.

Atul Chandra

Asia

Atul Chandra

Atul is a postgraduate from the University of Delhi. He has been a student and youth activist since 2007. While pursuing his bachelor’s degree, he was elected as the central councilor of the University of Delhi student union (2009–2010). Prior to joining Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Atul worked as a field investigator for the Right to Food Campaign, focusingon the themes of human bondage, land alienation, and hunger death among Sahariya tribes in Rajasthan. Between 2013–2017, he coordinated and organised various activities and research work as a researcher and project assistant in collaboration with the South Asian University and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (South Asia).

Tings Chak

Asia

Tings Chak

Tings Chak is the co-coordinator of Tricontinental Asia and the art and culture department. Her work explores the history, theory, and practice of art and culture in national liberation and socialist projects as well as the history of the Chinese Revolution, contemporary socialist construction, and China’s place within the Global South. She is a regular contributor to Monthly Review, BreakThrough News, and Brasil de Fato and has written for numerous international publications. Tings is also an editor of Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought, a doctoral candidate at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the author of Art that Serves the People: Culture and National Liberation (2026).

Carlos Ron

Nuestra América

Carlos Ron

Carlos is a former Venezuelan diplomat who served as deputy minister of foreign affairs for North America (2018–2025) and president of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples (2020–2025). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies from Rutgers University and a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the University of Brasília. Carlos is currently pursuing a PhD in Our American Studies at the Rómulo Gallegos Centre for Latin American Studies. His areas of research include hyper-imperialism, Bolivarianism and national liberation, Marxism in Latin America, people’s diplomacy, and Latin American unity and integration. He has contributed to several books, including Why Venezuela?: How the US Tries to Undermine Democracy and Sovereignty in Latin America.

Laura Capote

Nuestra América

Laura Capote

Laura is a Colombian social activist and journalist who has been living in Argentina since 2013. She has a degree in communication sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and is an MA candidate in international relations at the National University of La Plata. She is responsible for the Secretariat of Political Education of ALBA, a continent-wide platform of social and people’s movements, and a member of the Colombian Group of Critical Thought at the University of Buenos Aires’ Colombian Institute of Latin American Studies. She is also a part of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research’s Observatory on the Conjuncture of Latin America and the Caribbean (OBSAL).

Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

Pan Africa

Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

Mika is an educator and researcher. She is part of the Pan Africanism Today Secretariat, which coordinates the regional articulation of the International People’s Assembly and is also part of the No Cold War coordination committee, a peace platform promoting multilateralism and maximum global cooperation. She is also part of Dongsheng, an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society, and hosts The Crane: An Africa-China Podcast.

Tariro Takuva

Pan Africa

Tariro Takuva

Tariro has extensive experience in finance and operations. She works in different capacities to support organisations and movements on the African continent that are focused on facilitating community and societal engagement, education, advancing and promoting social justice, human rights, and furthering democracy and equality.

Franziska Kleiner

Zetkin Forum

Franziska Kleiner

Franziska is a cofounder of the Internationale Forschungsstelle DDR (IF DDR) and coordinates the Zetkin Forum as well as Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research’s Europe desk. Based in Berlin, she manages day-to-day work, connects organisations and activists across Europe and internationally, and develops research, publications, and political education projects. Drawing on her experience raising three children, she is especially passionate about political education with young people and working with playful, participatory formats rather than abstract instruction. She translates Tricontinental dossiers and newsletters into German, edits Zetkin Forum texts, and works as a planner, fundraiser, and political analyst.

Department of Economics

Emiliano Lopez

Chief Economist

Emiliano Lopez

Emiliano is a militant, researcher, and professor. Since 2004, he has been active in various political movements and spaces linked to labor organising and political education within popular movements. He is a member of the Laboratory of Sociological and Economic Labor Studies (LESET) at the University of La Plata. He received his PhD in economics at the University of La Plata (UNLP), where he teaches in the College of Humanities. He has published various articles and books, including The Post-Neoliberal Years: From the Crisis to the Consolidation of a New Method of Development. He studies themes linked to the political economy, political sociology, and methods of development that are in dispute in Argentina today.

Subin Dennis

Researcher

Subin Dennis

Subin Dennis is an economist and activist based in New Delhi. Hailing from Kerala, he holds M.A. and MPhil. degrees in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was active with the student movement and served as the Delhi State Vice-President of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI). Subin’s writings in English and Malayalam on issues related to economy and politics appear in various periodicals and websites. He worked with the online news portal NewsClick as a writer before joining Tricontinental.

Bodapati Srujana

Researcher

Bodapati Srujana

Srujana has mainly worked in the area agrarian relations in India. She has participated in village studies in different parts of India. From time to time she writes on Indian banking sector issues in NewsClick. She was active in student politics in Delhi and still takes active interest in left politics and struggles.

Cristiane Ganaka

Researcher

Cristiane Ganaka

Cristiane is an economist and also holds a bachelor’s degree in science and humanities from the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). She was a part of the student movement as an undergraduate and volunteered for the economic observatory of ABC. She worked with the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (DIEESE) for over five years, working directly with the National Confederation of Metalworkers, part of the Unified Workers’ Central (CUT). She researched industry and, more specifically, the metallurgical sector from a perspective of gender, race, and youth, as well as the labor market and labor relations.

Dalaya Ashenafi

Researcher

Dalaya Ashenafi

Dalaya is an Ethiopian political economist and strategist whose work critically engages with structural inequality, state power, and emancipatory development alternatives. With over fifteen years of experience, her analysis challenges neoliberal orthodoxy, exposing how capital accumulation reproduces marginalisation in the Global South. As a 2022 Asia Global Fellow, she investigated state-owned enterprises through a lens of socialist industrialisation. Dalaya is also the deputy principal of the Ethiopian Women Researchers Network (EWNET). Her publications on political settlements and late industrialisation centre class struggle, collective agency, and anti-imperialist frameworks. Rooted in Ethiopia’s developmental thinking, yet globally connected, Dalaya’s scholarship advances a radical vision of development that rejects technocratic fixes in favour of structural transformation and pan-African solidarity.

Facundo Barrera Insua

Researcher

Facundo Barrera Insua

Facundo holds a degree in economics from the National University of La Plata and a PhD in social sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council and teaches applied statistics at the Arturo Jauretche National University. He specialises in labour economics with a focus on wage inequalities and working conditions in Argentina, where the dynamics of capital valorisation and union activity play a determining role. His current research project has led him to deepen his study of the metalworkers’ union in Argentina’s Southern Conurbano. His research and teaching are inseparable from his political activism, both in the university setting and in various popular-movement organisations.

Grieve Chelwa

Researcher

Grieve Chelwa

Grieve is a Zambian economist whose research focuses on African economic development. He is an associate professor of political economy at the Africa Institute as well as the coordinator of the Collective on African Political Economy (CAPE), a collection of emerging African academics and leaders of social movements interested in an emancipatory political economy as it relates to the African continent. Grieve previously served as a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a regular commentator on African economic issues, with opinions appearing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, CGTN, BBC, Mail and Guardian, People’s Dispatch, Lusaka Times, and Business Day, among many others. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Zambia and a PhD in economics from the University of Cape Town.

Juliane Furno

Researcher

Juliane Furno

Juliane is an activist, educator, and economist. She holds a master’s degree and doctorate in economic development from the State University of Campinas and was a researcher at the Oil Workers’ Union, an educator at the trade union school of United Workers’ Central, a chief economist at the Institute for the Reform of State-Business Relations, and served as a special advisor to the presidency of the National Bank for Economic and Social Development. Currently she is a professor at the Faculty of Economics of the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of the books Imperialismo: uma introdução econômica (Imperialism: An Economic Introduction) and Economia para a transformação social: pequeno manual para mudar o mundo (Economics for Social Transformation: A Short Manual to Change the World).

Li Bo

Researcher

Li Bo

Li Bo is the executive director of the Shanghai Chunqiu Institute for Development and Strategic Studies and the assistant dean at China Institute of Fudan University, one of China’s top think tanks. Dr. Li obtained a PhD degree in economics from Kiel University in Germany. From 1994 to 2015, he served in a variety of senior executive roles in several prestigious domestic and foreign strategy consulting firms and public listed companies. Before joining Chunqiu Institute, Dr. Li served as the academic representative of Guancha Syndicate in Beijing. His research interests include the history of socialism, socialism in China, the digital economy, and development economics and geopolitics around China and the Global South.

Lucia Converti

Researcher

Lucia Converti

Lucia is an Argentinian militant with Nuestramérica Movimiento Popular (Our American Popular Movement). She holds a degree in economics and is pursuing a master’s in Latin American social studies at the University of Buenos Aires. She recently completed a certificate programme in data science and artificial intelligence at the National University of San Martín and currently works as a data scientist. Always focused on issues of economic policy, she has conducted research at the Latin American Centre for Strategic Geopolitics (CELAG) and worked for the state for more than ten years in various areas at the local, national, and regional levels.

Matthew Read

Researcher

Matthew Read

Matthew is a researcher engaged in political education, organising, and solidarity work in Berlin. At the Zetkin Forum for Social Research, he coordinates the research agenda of the Internationale Forschungsstelle DDR (IFDDR) and writes about socialist health care, anti-imperialist strategies, the planned economy, and state theory, among other topics. His research focuses on analysing the historical experiences of and scholarship from Eastern European socialist states and connecting these insights to contemporary struggles. He is also an editor of the Zetkin Forum’s publications and coordinates the European section of the International Union of Left Publishers (IULP).

Shiran Illanperuma

Editor and Researcher

Shiran Illanperuma

Shiran is a journalist and political economist based in Sri Lanka. His research focuses on industrial policy and the importance of industrialisation to national liberation and socialist construction. He has an MSc in Economic Policy from SOAS University of London.

Umesh Yadav

Researcher

Umesh Yadav

Umesh received a master’s degree and MPhil in economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research interests include the rural economy, labour relations, and political economy. As a member of Tricontinental’s Asia desk, he researches and analyses data, writes in Hindi about contemporary economic issues in India, and assists with translating and editing publications into Hindi.

Department of Historical Sociology

Miguel Enrique Stédile

Co-Chair

Miguel Enrique Stédile

Miguel received his master’s degree and PhD in history from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He is a member of the coordination of the Josué de Castro Institute of Education, a teaching institute for rural popular movements dedicated to training youth and managers of cooperatives. He is the author of several books on social history, agrarian issues, and geopolitics, especially on Latin America and China. He collaborates with several media outlets in Brazil, including Brasil de Fato and TV dos Trabalhadores (TVT).

Yvonne Phyllis

Co-Chair

Yvonne Phyllis

Yvonne is a researcher, author, and teacher. She received a master’s degree in Political and International Studies from The University Currently Known as Rhodes. She is currently the co-director of operations at The Forge, a radical pan-African project in Johannesburg, Braamfontein. Prior to joining The Forge, Yvonne was a lecturer of Political and International Studies at The University Currently Known as Rhodes. Her research interests include the landlessness and exploitation of farmworkers in South Africa and their land aspirations as well as land redistribution and agrarian reform in Africa.

Alejandro Jasinski

Researcher

Alejandro Jasinski

Alejandro is a journalist with a PhD in history, as well as an eternally aspiring advocate of just causes. He researches, writes, and teaches at the University of Buenos Aires and works at the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation, collaborating on judicial cases of crimes against humanity committed in Argentina. His most recent book is titled The Spell of Tannin (El encanto del tanino, 2023). He is also the author of the book Worker Rebellion and Massacre in La Forestal (Revuelta obrera y masacre en La Forestal) and the co-coordinator and co-author of the report Corporate Responsibility in Crimes Against Humanity (Responsabilidad empresarial en delitos de lesa humanidad).

Carmen Navas Reyes

Researcher

Carmen Navas Reyes

Carmen is a Venezuelan feminist and former diplomat. She was the executive director of the Simón Bolívar Institute (2020–2025) and served as the external consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (2016–2018), deputy chief of mission at the Venezuelan Embassy in Brazil (2010–2015), and consul general in Manaus and Recife (2010–2015). She holds a master’s degree in ecology for human development from the Simón Rodríguez National Experimental University and a bachelor’s in political science from the Central University of Venezuela. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Our American Studies at the Rómulo Gallegos Centre for Latin American Studies. Her research interests include democracy and political systems, social movements, and the history of the African diaspora.

Delana Corazza

Researcher

Delana Corazza

Delana is a researcher with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, and a PhD in Geography from São Paulo State University. She began her activism in housing movements and urban occupations in the city centre of São Paulo, was an activist with Consulta Popular, and worked on land regularisation in favelas on the outskirts of São Paulo and with popular education in various spaces. She coordinated the research project Observatory on Evictions with the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo and the Federal University of ABC and was the coordinator of the Women in Struggle project for the Gaspar Garcia Centre for Human Rights. She has coordinated research on evangelicals, politics, and grassroots work with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research since 2019.

Guillermo Barreto

Researcher

Guillermo Barreto

Guillermo is a biologist trained at the University of Oxford and a retired professor specialising in conservation and management of biological diversity. He served as Venezuela’s minister of people’s power for ecosocialism and waters (2015–2016) and has held positions such as president of the National Science Foundation, deputy minister of science and technology, president of the International Centre for Decolonisation Studies, and coordinator of education at the Simón Bolívar Institute. He also served as the co-organiser of the Decolonial School of Caracas and the International Seminar on Reparations for Slavery and Colonisation. His areas of interest and research include reparations for slavery and colonisation, the environmental question, ecosocialism, and civilisational crisis.

Harleen Kaur

Researcher

Harleen Kaur

Harleen edits texts produced by Tricontinental’s India office, translates materials from English to Hindi, and coordinates the dissemination of the institute’s publications in India. Her research interests include how neoliberalism impacts education policies as well as critical pedagogy, social constructivist human development, and contemporary cultural discourses around individuality. She is also a math teacher.

Julián Bokser

Communications specialist

Julián Bokser

Julian is an activist, university professor, and high school teacher. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Buenos Aires, where is currently a PhD candidate in social sciences. From 2015 to 2018 he was part of the national coordination of ALBA Movements’ Argentina chapter and participated in numerous forms of alternative, community, and popular communication. He is currently an advisor to the National Congress of Argentina and part of the communications team of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (Argentina).

Manolo de los Santos

Researcher

Manolo de los Santos

Manolo is an organiser and educator. He owes his political education to people’s movements from the Caribbean to New York City. He was the founding director of the People’s Forum, a movement incubator for working-class communities to build unity across historic lines of division at home and abroad.

Max Rodermund

Researcher

Max Rodermund

Max is a researcher, political activist, and organiser in Berlin. At the Zetkin Forum, he researches and writes about the questions of fascism and imperialism as well as the history of socialism in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) and its impact on the world, including in the areas of agriculture, health care, democracy, and the anti-imperialist strategy of the socialist camp. As part of his research, Max conducts interviews with former citizens of the DDR and other key figures who had first-hand experience with the country. He has an academic background in media and film studies and history.

Prasanth Radhakrishnan

Researcher

Prasanth Radhakrishnan

Prasanth is a researcher based in New Delhi, India. He was a journalist with NewsClick and Peoples Dispatch, where he covered the work of people’s movements and anti-imperialist struggles from across the world. He has also worked with popular media projects in Africa. His research focuses on the political economy of the media in the Global South and the possibilities and future of people’s media. A free software activist, he is also deeply interested in the intersection of technology and geopolitics.

Rodrigo Lentz

Researcher

Rodrigo Lentz

Rodrigo is an attorney and holds a PhD in political science from the University of Brasília. He researches political thought within the Brazilian military and political system and has published scientific articles, book chapters, opinion articles, interviews, and the book The Republic of National Security (2022). He was a consultant at the United Nations (UNDP), coordinator of the Amnesty Commission of the Ministry of Justice, and field coordinator for the 8th Brazilian Legislative Survey (Getúlio Vargas Foundation – FGV/Oxford). In addition to working as a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, he is currently an advisor for the Amnesty Commission of the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, visiting professor of human rights and public policy at University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos Campus São Leopoldo (Unisinos), executive board member of the Brazilian Coalition for Memory, Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Democracy, and a member of the research group Democracy and Society (a project of Demodê – Research Group on Democracy and Inequality at the University of Brasília).

Satarupa Chakraborty

Researcher

Satarupa Chakraborty

Satarupa is an activist and is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, India. She has been actively associated with the student movement in India since 2013. She was elected as the general secretary of JNU’s student union in 2016. In 2015, she held the position of convener of the student union at the School of Social Sciences. She has been active part of the movements #OccupyUGC and #StandWithJNU. She received her MA from the University of Hyderabad and her M.Phil from JNU in the philosophy of language. She was also awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research.

Teresa Maia

Researcher

Teresa Maia

Teresa holds a master’s degree in development, agriculture, and society from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro; a postgraduate degree in labour economics and trade unionism from the State University of Campinas; and a bachelor’s in social sciences from the Federal University of Ceará. She worked in public policy management for eight years, with a focus on promoting popular participation. Since 2016, she has been part of the National Secretariat of the Brazil Popular Project, which brings together intellectuals, academics, militants from popular movements, and representatives of civil society organisations to debate and formulate analyses and proposals for a popular project of national development.

Department of Feminisms

Maisa Bascuas

Co-Chair

Maisa Bascuas

Maisa is a feminist activist of the people, a university professor, and a researcher. She has participated in various political organisations and political education spaces with people’s organisations, unions, and feminist organisations in Argentina. She has a degree in Political Science and teaches at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and at the National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS) in the Gender, Politics, and Social Participation Diploma. She is a tutor in the Latin American Program for Online Learning in Social Sciences (PLED) in issues related to gender and social economics. She is a researcher at the Institute of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Buenos Aires (IEALC-UBA) and the Oral Archive of Open Memory. She is the author of articles and publications on the State, public policies, Latin American feminisms, and people’s and feminist economies.

Pilar Troya Fernández

Co-Chair

Pilar Troya Fernández

Pilar is a militant and researcher. She is an Ecuadorian feminist anthropologist and has a master’s degree in women and gender studies. Her main areas of interest are social public policies, especially concerning gender equality and the feminist movement. Her activism began in college as part of the student movement and she was involved in the Women’s Assembly in Quito. She worked as a researcher with the System of Social Indicators (SIISE) and the Latin America Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), where she also taught classes on public policies and social indicators. She then served as an advisor to the Ministry of National Planning and as an advisor and Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Ecuador. She coordinates the feminisms working group of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Carmen Navas Reyes

Researcher

Carmen Navas Reyes

Carmen is a Venezuelan feminist and former diplomat. She was the executive director of the Simón Bolívar Institute (2020–2025) and served as the external consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (2016–2018), deputy chief of mission at the Venezuelan Embassy in Brazil (2010–2015), and consul general in Manaus and Recife (2010–2015). She holds a master’s degree in ecology for human development from the Simón Rodríguez National Experimental University and a bachelor’s in political science from the Central University of Venezuela. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Our American Studies at the Rómulo Gallegos Centre for Latin American Studies. Her research interests include democracy and political systems, social movements, and the history of the African diaspora.

Delana Corazza

Researcher

Delana Corazza

Delana is a researcher with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, and a PhD in Geography from São Paulo State University. She began her activism in housing movements and urban occupations in the city centre of São Paulo, was an activist with Consulta Popular, and worked on land regularisation in favelas on the outskirts of São Paulo and with popular education in various spaces. She coordinated the research project Observatory on Evictions with the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo and the Federal University of ABC and was the coordinator of the Women in Struggle project for the Gaspar Garcia Centre for Human Rights. She has coordinated research on evangelicals, politics, and grassroots work with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research since 2019.

Florentine Sandoval

Researcher

Florentine Sandoval

Flo ensures that operations run smoothly at the Zetkin Forum for Social Research, including day-to-day administration and organisational management, and is an editor of the forum’s publications. At the Internationale Forschungsstelle (IF DDR), Flo researches the history of women’s emancipation and internationalism in the DDR as well as the cultural policies and practices in East German socialist society.

Harleen Kaur

Researcher

Harleen Kaur

Harleen edits texts produced by Tricontinental’s India office, translates materials from English to Hindi, and coordinates the dissemination of the institute’s publications in India. Her research interests include how neoliberalism impacts education policies as well as critical pedagogy, social constructivist human development, and contemporary cultural discourses around individuality. She is also a math teacher.

Culture Department

Research and Education

Tings Chak

Director

Tings Chak

Tings Chak is the co-coordinator of Tricontinental Asia and the art and culture department. Her work explores the history, theory, and practice of art and culture in national liberation and socialist projects as well as the history of the Chinese Revolution, contemporary socialist construction, and China’s place within the Global South. She is a regular contributor to Monthly Review, BreakThrough News, and Brasil de Fato and has written for numerous international publications. Tings is also an editor of Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought, a doctoral candidate at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the author of Art that Serves the People: Culture and National Liberation (2026).

Miguel Yoshida

Researcher

Miguel Yoshida

Miguel is a coordinator of the Tricontinental (Brazil) office as well as an editor of the Journal of Studies of the Global South (RSG). He has extensive experience in book publishing through the publishing house Expressão Popular in Brazil and is the convener of the International Union of Left Publishers (IULP). He has a bachelor’s degree in literature and a master’s degree and PhD in comparative literature, and his main research interests are the relationship between art and society, with an emphasis on literary studies as a form of knowledge of reality and of resistance and organisation. He also works with the thought of Florestan Fernandes, mainly in his reflections on dependent capitalism and the dilemmas of Brazilian social formation.

Nitheesh Narayanan

Researcher

Nitheesh Narayanan

Nitheesh has been an activist with the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) since 2003 and is currently the vice president. He holds a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy of Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), where he studied the connections between caste and class as well as the political mobilisation of the early communist movement in North Malabar. Nitheesh received his MA in politics with a specialisation in international studies and his MPhil on the agrarian movement and caste question from the same university. He writes about social and political issues in English and Malayalam; has authored, edited, and/or translated five books in those languages; and was previously the editor of SFI’s journal, Student Struggle.

Pindiga Ambedkar

Researcher

Pindiga Ambedkar

Pindiga Ambedkar received his MPhil from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he focused his studies on issues faced by the oppressed classes (specifically, the lower castes or Dalits) in science and technology institutes in India. As a student, P. Ambedkar was an active member of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and was elected as the Vice-President of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Students’ Union (2007-08) while pursuing his Master’s. In addition to his research, P. Ambedkar is engaged with Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (“the Platform for Liberation of the Oppressed” in English), which fights against caste discrimination. Prior to joining the Tricontinental, he worked as a correspondent with NewsClick, a web-based journal headquartered in New Delhi.

Carlos Ron

Researcher

Carlos Ron

Carlos is a former Venezuelan diplomat who served as deputy minister of foreign affairs for North America (2018–2025) and president of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples (2020–2025). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies from Rutgers University and a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the University of Brasília. Carlos is currently pursuing a PhD in Our American Studies at the Rómulo Gallegos Centre for Latin American Studies. His areas of research include hyper-imperialism, Bolivarianism and national liberation, Marxism in Latin America, people’s diplomacy, and Latin American unity and integration. He has contributed to several books, including Why Venezuela?: How the US Tries to Undermine Democracy and Sovereignty in Latin America.

Design and Production

Ingrid Neves

Director

Ingrid Neves

Ingrid is an artist and graduate of Communication and Multimedia Studies from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She interned at the PUC-SP and worked at Anhembi Morumbi University (UAM), where she specialised in the production of educational videos and animations. She is currently a designer with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Abhinav VK

Abhinav VK

Abhinav is an artist, organiser, and graphic designer from Kerala, India. He is member of Young Socialist Artists, a collective that brings together artists and cultural workers from across India who are embedded in social and political movements in their regions. His posters have been included in various exhibitions curated by anti-imperialist organisations and institutions and he has designed book covers and visual materials for over twenty titles published in multiple languages. He was an active member of the Students’ Federation of India from 2013 to 2020 and has been an active member of Democratic Youth Federation of India since 2016.

Daniela Ruggeri

Designer

Daniela Ruggeri

Daniela is a comic book artist, educator, designer, and cultural producer who creates illustrations and designs for publishers, social movements, and worker-recovered enterprises. She co-organised Drawn, a festival of Argentinian comics, and is a member of Graphic Feminism, where she co-coordinates We Women Tell Stories, a project that researches and promotes Argentinian women comic artists from the early 20th century to the present. Daniela’s comics have appeared in various anthologies and two award-winning books: The Devil in Tower 9 and The Other Lake. As an educator, she teaches visual arts pedagogy and works with public elementary schools on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, organising hands-on experiences with students and training workshops for teachers focused on self-publishing and graphic storytelling.

Kael Abello

Designer

Kael Abello

Kael is a visual artist and activist born in Caracas, Venezuela. He has an undergraduate degree in literature from the Central University of Venezuela. He was creative director of the Ministry of Popular Power for Communes and founder of the artists’ collective Comando Creativo (Creative Command). He was awarded the 2018 Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award for graphic work. His work focuses on developing graphic identities for popular organisations, editorial design for left-wing publishing houses, and the visual representation of the history of Global South struggles. He is currently part of the editorial board of Utopix and the art department of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Vanshika Babbar

Designer

Vanshika Babbar

Vanshika is an artist and designer based in New Delhi who works primarily with digital design, collage, gouache painting, video installation, and zines. She holds a master’s degree in visual arts from Ambedkar University and has participated in residencies and exhibitions across India. Her paintings, often portraits and caricatures, draw on images from news coverage. Through collage and remixing, she explores the social absurdities of life under capitalism and the ideological forces shaping everyday life. Her work also draws on the aesthetics of memes and humour to examine tragedy and comedy in the digital age. She is a member of Young Socialist Artists, a collective of artists and cultural workers embedded in social and political movements across India.

Publications

Celina della Croce

Director

Celina della Croce

Celina is an organiser and militant who works with the institute’s publications, English-language editing, and translations. Before joining Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, she worked in the labour movement with the Service Employees International Union and the Fight for 15 as an organiser, union representative, and shop steward and was an editor and photographer for Humans of St. Louis. She has been an active participant in the fight for social, economic, and racial justice in the streets from Missouri to Massachusetts.

Alejandra Mejía

Editor

Alejandra Mejía

Ale is an editor for the institute’s English-language interregional publications team. Based in Durham, North Carolina, she also serves as chief editor of Migrant Roots Media and as assistant acquisitions editor in Latinx history at Duke University Press. Her politics and commitment to migrant justice are informed by her lived experience as a working-class Central American immigrant in the United States as well as her background in union and internationalist organising.

Dafne Melo

Translator

Dafne Melo

Dafne is a psychoanalyst and translator living in São Paulo, Brazil. She has undergraduate degrees in journalism (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo) and history (University of São Paulo) and a postgraduate degree in psychoanalysis (Sedes Sapientiae Institute). She worked at Brasil de Fato as a journalist from 2004 and 2011 and lived in Argentina for four years, where she participated in the founding of the popular communication vehicles Marcha and Notas – periodismo popular. She was an activist with Consulta Popular (Brazil), Frente Popular Darío Santillán (Argentina), and Movimento Patria Grande (Argentina). In addition to translating for Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, she has translated books in the human and social sciences. Currently, she also studies the relations between gender, neoliberalism, the social reproduction of life, and psychological suffering.

Eduardo Rodríguez

Editor

Eduardo Rodríguez

Eduardo is a Puerto Rican writer, translator, editor, interpreter, and militant whose work is focused on building working-class internationalism through language. He collaborates with ALBA Movimientos and the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA) as part of a network of popular translators and interpreters providing translation and interpretation services for social movements and political organisations across the world. Through his work, he hopes to contribute to the battle of ideas by enriching the political education of movements and facilitating exchange and coordination between struggles. He is an editor with the institute’s English-language interregional publications team.

Fernando Vicente Prieto

Editor

Fernando Vicente Prieto

Fernando is a journalist, editor, and social justice activist. Born in Argentina, he has been involved in people’s movements since 1995. He has worked as a journalist, editor, correspondent, and publisher in several media houses, including Prensa De Frente, Marcha Noticias, ALBA TV and Notas – Periodismo Popular, between 2003 and 2017. From 2013 and 2018, he was part of the communications team of ALBA Movements. Since 2014, he has participated in political education initiatives related to communication and geopolitics with the José Carlos Mariátegui School. Since 2018, he has coordinated the Batalla de Ideas publishing house. He is part of the project of the Latin America and the Caribbean Observatory that is being developed in the Buenos Aires office of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Harleen Kaur

Researcher

Harleen Kaur

Harleen edits texts produced by Tricontinental’s India office, translates materials from English to Hindi, and coordinates the dissemination of the institute’s publications in India. Her research interests include how neoliberalism impacts education policies as well as critical pedagogy, social constructivist human development, and contemporary cultural discourses around individuality. She is also a math teacher.

María Raquel Echiburú Alfaro

Translator

María Raquel Echiburú Alfaro

Kelly is an environmental engineer and translator. Her professional experience spans education, project evaluation, and research in critical areas such as water supply, mining, and local economic development. She has worked in Chilean economic and mining institutions and has extensive experience as a graduate and undergraduate professor. Her translation work focuses on social, scientific, educational, and cultural fields. As a long-time activist from Chile, she is deeply committed to preserving and recovering the historical memory of genocidal acts and systematic human rights violations.

Luiz Felipe Albuquerque

Editor

Luiz Felipe Albuquerque

Luiz is a journalist who is responsible for communications in Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research’s Brazil office. He worked in the communications sector of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) for five years, contributing to the movement’s public relations and press outreach. He was also an editor of the MST’s website and the Jornal Sem Terra (Landless Journal).  He worked for the journal Brasil de Fato for four years as an associate editor, also assisting in the coordination and political guidance for the Center of Popular Media (CPMídias).

Miguel Yoshida

Editor

Miguel Yoshida

Miguel is a coordinator of the Tricontinental (Brazil) office as well as an editor of the Journal of Studies of the Global South (RSG). He has extensive experience in book publishing through the publishing house Expressão Popular in Brazil and is the convener of the International Union of Left Publishers (IULP). He has a bachelor’s degree in literature and a master’s degree and PhD in comparative literature, and his main research interests are the relationship between art and society, with an emphasis on literary studies as a form of knowledge of reality and of resistance and organisation. He also works with the thought of Florestan Fernandes, mainly in his reflections on dependent capitalism and the dilemmas of Brazilian social formation.

Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

Researcher

Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

Mika is an educator and researcher. She is part of the Pan Africanism Today Secretariat, which coordinates the regional articulation of the International People’s Assembly and is also part of the No Cold War coordination committee, a peace platform promoting multilateralism and maximum global cooperation. She is also part of Dongsheng, an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society, and hosts The Crane: An Africa-China Podcast.

Mimi Zhu

Communicator and editor

Mimi Zhu

Mimi Zhu is a Chinese-Australian writer, journalist, and storyteller based in Shanghai. Her work focuses on telling everyday stories of socialism and the Global South, with a focus on China and its working-class rural populations. She is a reporter and podcast host at Wave Media and a writer and editor at Globetrotter. Her first book, Be Not Afraid of Love, explores how capitalism destroys our ability to love one another.

Pilar Troya Fernández

Researcher

Pilar Troya Fernández

Pilar is a militant and researcher. She is an Ecuadorian feminist anthropologist and has a master’s degree in women and gender studies. Her main areas of interest are social public policies, especially concerning gender equality and the feminist movement. Her activism began in college as part of the student movement and she was involved in the Women’s Assembly in Quito. She worked as a researcher with the System of Social Indicators (SIISE) and the Latin America Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), where she also taught classes on public policies and social indicators. She then served as an advisor to the Ministry of National Planning and as an advisor and Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Ecuador. She coordinates the feminisms working group of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Rebecca Gendler

Administrator

Rebecca Gendler

Rebecca is responsible for the administrative and financial aspects of the São Paulo office. She has a bachelor’s degree in Advertising and Publicity with a specialization in marketing from Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Before joining Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Rebecca worked in the business sector, as well as with marketing agencies. She was also in charge of management for a business in the service sector for over seven years, where she was responsible for administrative, financial, and operational management. She is also an activist.

Shiran Illanperuma

Editor and Researcher

Shiran Illanperuma

Shiran is a journalist and political economist based in Sri Lanka. His research focuses on industrial policy and the importance of industrialisation to national liberation and socialist construction. He has an MSc in Economic Policy from SOAS University of London.

Communications

Pindiga Ambedkar

Director

Pindiga Ambedkar

Pindiga Ambedkar received his MPhil from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he focused his studies on issues faced by the oppressed classes (specifically, the lower castes or Dalits) in science and technology institutes in India. As a student, P. Ambedkar was an active member of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and was elected as the Vice-President of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Students’ Union (2007-08) while pursuing his Master’s. In addition to his research, P. Ambedkar is engaged with Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (“the Platform for Liberation of the Oppressed” in English), which fights against caste discrimination. Prior to joining the Tricontinental, he worked as a correspondent with NewsClick, a web-based journal headquartered in New Delhi.

Julián Bokser

Communications Specialist

Julián Bokser

Julian is an activist, university professor, and high school teacher. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Buenos Aires, where is currently a PhD candidate in social sciences. From 2015 to 2018 he was part of the national coordination of ALBA Movements’ Argentina chapter and participated in numerous forms of alternative, community, and popular communication. He is currently an advisor to the National Congress of Argentina and part of the communications team of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (Argentina).

Luiz Felipe Albuquerque

Communications Specialist

Luiz Felipe Albuquerque

Luiz is a journalist who is responsible for communications in Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research’s Brazil office. He worked in the communications sector of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) for five years, contributing to the movement’s public relations and press outreach. He was also an editor of the MST’s website and the Jornal Sem Terra (Landless Journal).  He worked for the journal Brasil de Fato for four years as an associate editor, also assisting in the coordination and political guidance for the Center of Popular Media (CPMídias).

Operations

Tariro Takuva

Director

Tariro Takuva

Tariro has extensive experience in finance and operations. She works in different capacities to support organisations and movements on the African continent that are focused on facilitating community and societal engagement, education, advancing and promoting social justice, human rights, and furthering democracy and equality.

Jojo Hu

Manager

Jojo Hu

Jojo’s work focuses on global communications, in particular bridging communications divides within the Global South. She is part of the coordination team for the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng, jointly produced with the research collective Dongsheng, and has a degree in public relations from East China Normal University.

Julia Dratel

Operations Administrator

Julia Dratel

Julia studied Cinema and Media Studies as well as Human Rights at the University of Chicago. She has a professional background as a paralegal and previously worked for a renowned criminal defence firm where she assisted counsel for Abdul Latif Nasser, who was released from the illegal US prison at Guantanamo and returned to his home country. She is also a multimedia and event producer, organiser, and visual artist. Her photography has appeared in outlets such as People’s Dispatch, The Wire, Tone Glow, The Media, The Chicago Reader, and Pitchfork, and she has hosted radio programs on WHPK and WFMU. She was a research contributor to Liz Pelly’s critically acclaimed book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. As an organiser, she has primarily been a part of building movements of cultural workers as well as currently and formerly incarcerated people.

Rebecca Gendler

Operations administrator

Rebecca Gendler

Rebecca is responsible for the administrative and financial aspects of the São Paulo office. She has a bachelor’s degree in Advertising and Publicity with a specialization in marketing from Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Before joining Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Rebecca worked in the business sector, as well as with marketing agencies. She was also in charge of management for a business in the service sector for over seven years, where she was responsible for administrative, financial, and operational management. She is also an activist.

Soledad Varela

Operations Manager

Soledad Varela

Soledad is an event manager, cultural facilitator, and researcher who focuses on organising seminars, book launches, and international conferences across diverse fields, with special attention to the social sciences, human rights, and women’s rights. She has engaged in research and editing work at the Institut Universitari d’Estudis Europeus in Barcelona and at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York on El Salvador’s legislation on abortion. She holds a Master’s in International Studies from the University of Chile and an LLB from the University of Warwick. She has lived in the US, Italy, England, Mexico, and Brazil.

Ursula Eggers

Operations Administrator

Ursula Eggers

Ursula is a Chilean feminist and defender of human rights. As the president of the Providencia Human Rights Coordinating Committee and a cofounder of the Observatory on Human Rights and Political Violence, she worked to condemn national and international human rights violations that took place during Chile’s political uprising from 2019 to 2020. Ursula was also an advisor during Chile’s constitutional process, where she founded and oversaw the Plurinational Union of Workers of the Constitutional Convention. She has a degree in social work.

Technology

Amílcar Guerra

Director

Amílcar Guerra

Amílcar is a graphic designer and self-taught web developer as well as a hacker in spirit. He has a long history of collaborating with various kinds of organisations in web development and technology across the world including Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Germany, Australia, and Mexico. He has a strong interest in the intersection between technology and politics and coordinates the technology department of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Daniel Lage

Sysadmin

Daniel Lage

Daniel is a systems administrator, professor, samba dancer, poet, and political scientist. He has worked with open source software and with the Linux community. Parallel to his work as a computer scientist, he received his master’s degree in political science, became a popular educator, and, in 2021, launched his first book of poems, entitled Florecimientos (‘Blossoms’). With this hybrid trajectory, he found in the Tricontinental a promising space for his professional development.

Laura Pierson

Sysadmin

Laura Pierson

As the systems administrator for the Zetkin Forum for Social Research, Laura ensures that tech runs smoothly. Outside of the Zetkin Forum, they organise with the Berlin Tech Workers Coalition and run workshops on the materiality of the cloud, applying materialist analysis to the functioning of our digital infrastructure.

Stephanie Sandoval

Web editor

Stephanie Sandoval

Stephanie is a Venezuelan feminist activist who has been a member of Faldas-R, an organisation dedicated to the promotion and defence of sexual and reproductive rights, for almost a decade. She has extensive professional experience in development finance, international cooperation, and project management in Venezuela’s public and private sectors, as well as in regional integration institutions across Latin America and the Caribbean. Her work brings together technical expertise, political activism, and grassroots feminist organising.

Global South Insights

An Anthony

An Anthony

Anthony is a researcher and translator focused on international communications and the Global South. He holds a master’s degree in translation and interpretation from Chengdu University of Technology. At Global South Insights, he supports empirical research through multilingual source analysis, data interpretation and auditing, and cross-regional comparative work. His expertise combines linguistic mediation with structured research methodologies to enhance analytical accuracy and expand access to Global South scholarship and policy discourse.

Ma Chenye Aries

Ma Chenye Aries

Aries is a researcher focused on international communications, the Global South, and AI-enabled social science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Portuguese from Shanghai International Studies University. She manages News on China, a multilingual news digest offering Chinese perspectives on global affairs; contributes to historical research on wartime economic and military mobilisation; and supports the design and implementation of AI-enhanced analytical workflows that integrate large language models (LLMs) with quantitative tools for policy-oriented research in the Global South.

Ivana Rojas García

Ivana Rojas García

Ivana is a Venezuelan researcher with a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Bolivarian University of Venezuela. Her professional background includes analytical work at the Venezuelan Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs. At Global South Insights, she provides research infrastructure support through systematic fact-checking protocols, critical source evaluation, data verification processes, and development of AI training methodologies.

Fu Leo

Fu Leo

Leo is an IT director with a background in global IT systems administration, network architecture, and enterprise infrastructure. He worked at Microsoft for four years, where he specialised in managing large-scale global IT environments including firewall systems, cloud infrastructure, DNS, and secure VPN architectures. He also spent four years at the software company Unity, where he supported and optimised enterprise IT systems, contributing to the stability, scalability, and security of global development and production environments. Since 2020, he has been actively involved in the deployment and research of large language model (LLM) infrastructure, focusing on building scalable, production-ready AI platforms. His expertise spans enterprise system reliability, secure network design, and the integration of advanced AI infrastructure to support innovation and operational efficiency.

Luján Veiga

Luján Veiga

Luján is an educator with twenty years of pedagogical experience in public schools and grassroots education movements across the Global South. Her previous experience includes leading literacy projects for adults and children and providing direct support and advocacy for women in vulnerable situations. She currently contributes to Global South Insights through the development of AI training protocols and social science research.

Huang Weicheng Spencer

Huang Weicheng Spencer

Spencer is a graphic designer with eight years of experience in editorial production environments. She specialises in layout design with demonstrated competency in design grounded in a robust understanding of design theory and its practical application. She integrates AI-assisted design workflows into her methodology and currently focuses on reconciling algorithmic tools with core design principles.

Hu Yiwen Wendy

Hu Yiwen Wendy

Wendy is a translator, interpreter, and researcher at Global South Insights, specialising in cross-cultural communication and transnational knowledge production. Her work focuses on mediating Global South narratives for Chinese-language audiences and translating contemporary Chinese developments for international readerships. She uses her specialised training in applied linguistics and technical proficiency in emerging digital tools to integrate computational methods with translation praxis. Wendy also provides research support across multiple project streams including data verification protocols, source authentication, and quality assurance testing for editorial systems.

Lu Xinyu

Lu Xinyu

Lu Xinyu is the director of the International Communication Research Institute and a Zijiang Chair Professor at East China Normal University as well as the president of the Global South Academic Forum. Professor Lu’s interdisciplinary research spans media studies, visual culture, sociology, and philosophy. Much of her work offers politically grounded readings of history through the lens of media and visual narratives, examining how historical events and social issues are represented and understood in contemporary Chinese culture. She has published in a number of books and academic articles, including ‘Chinese-Style Modernization: Revolution and the Worker-Peasant Alliance’ (Monthly Review, February 2025) and Neoliberalism or Neo-collective Rural China: A Critique and Prospect (Palgrave 2024).

Wu Yingnan

Wu Yingnan

Yingnan is a Shanghai-based technical manager and software engineer with a background in full-stack web development, data analytics, and DevOps. Since 2016, he has delivered end-to-end web applications and progressively expanded into building production-ready AI systems. He also has extensive expertise in data architecture and analytics, overseeing the design and optimisation of data pipelines and reporting systems to support research and strategic decision-making.

Yun Liang

Yun Liang

Yun is a statistician and economist with extensive cross-industry experience in data analysis and strategic research. Her experience includes contributing to policy studies covering employment, housing, transportation, education, and health. She has published her research in academic journals such as China Economic Review and Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. She holds an MS in statistics and a PhD in economics. Her recent work focuses on the impact of economic development on living standards and life expectancy.

Projects

Globetrotter

Taroa Zuñiga Silva

Spanish Editor

Taroa Zuñiga Silva

Taroa holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from the Central University of Venezuela and pursued a master’s in discourse studies at the same institution. A feminist political activist, she was one of the founders of Venezuela’s Faldas-R collective. She is a member of MECHA, a transdisciplinary cooperative dedicated to producing audiovisual content that promotes transformative ideas. She currently resides in Chile, where she is an active member of the Communist Party of Chile.

Carlos Ron

English Editor

Carlos Ron

Carlos is a former Venezuelan diplomat who served as deputy minister of foreign affairs for North America (2018–2025) and president of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples (2020–2025). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies from Rutgers University and a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the University of Brasília. Carlos is currently pursuing a PhD in Our American Studies at the Rómulo Gallegos Centre for Latin American Studies. His areas of research include hyper-imperialism, Bolivarianism and national liberation, Marxism in Latin America, people’s diplomacy, and Latin American unity and integration. He has contributed to several books, including Why Venezuela?: How the US Tries to Undermine Democracy and Sovereignty in Latin America.

Giuliano Salvatore

Editor

Giuliano Salvatore

Giuliano is a photographer, documentary filmmaker, and teacher. He is self-taught in audiovisual production and photography and has developed his work in both disciplines through his ties with specific communities, from prison and Afro-Caribbean communities to student and peasant organisations. With these groups, he has engaged, both individually and collectively, in a process of exchanging ideas, political education, and mutual collaboration. Since 2019, he has been a member of the street photography collective Cacri Photos, a joint effort by several Venezuelan photographers to give new meaning to the daily life of Venezuelans through art and documentary photography in recent years. As a documentary filmmaker and director of photography, he has won several awards in his country and abroad.

Katherin Chaparro

Sub-Editor

Katherin Chaparro

Katherin is a Venezuelan activist with over ten years of experience in public and private sector administration as well as the implementation of social policies and people-to-people diplomacy. She is also an event and international conference organiser and served as the director of logistics and operations at the Simón Bolívar Institute. Katherin holds a degree in administrative and management science from Venezuela’s Technological University of the Central Region. Her areas of interest include unilateral coercive measures and their social impact, women’s rights, social justice, community and territorial social policies, and strategic communications for social movements.

Pedro Marin

Pedro Marin

Pedro Marin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Revista Opera, an independent news outlet in Brazil that he founded at the age of 16, and an opinion editor at Opera Mundi. He was born in a working-class family on the east side of São Paulo and currently lives in northeast Brazil. Pedro is the author of Successive Approaches: The Military Party under Bolsonaro and Lula’s Third Administration (Writings: 2019–2023), co-author of The Trick up their Sleeves: The Return of the Military Party in Brazil, and has written extensively on Venezuela, China, Iran, and the influence of the military on Brazil’s political scene.

Wenhua Zongheng

Vijay Prashad

Executive Director

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad (born 1967 in Calcutta, India) is a historian and journalist who is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, an inter-movement research institute of the Global South associated with the International Peoples Assembly. His weekly newsletter from the institute reaches almost two million people. He is the author of over forty books, most recently (with Grieve Chelwa) How the International Monetary Fund Suffocates Africa (2026) and the two award winning histories The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2007) and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (2013). Prashad has twice been awarded the Muzaffar Ahmed Prize.

To reach Vijay for an interview, event, research, writing, or other request, please write to [email protected].

Tings Chak

Researcher

Tings Chak

Tings Chak is the co-coordinator of Tricontinental Asia and the art and culture department. Her work explores the history, theory, and practice of art and culture in national liberation and socialist projects as well as the history of the Chinese Revolution, contemporary socialist construction, and China’s place within the Global South. She is a regular contributor to Monthly Review, BreakThrough News, and Brasil de Fato and has written for numerous international publications. Tings is also an editor of Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought, a doctoral candidate at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the author of Art that Serves the People: Culture and National Liberation (2026).

Shiran Illanperuma

Editor and Researcher

Shiran Illanperuma

Shiran is a journalist and political economist based in Sri Lanka. His research focuses on industrial policy and the importance of industrialisation to national liberation and socialist construction. He has an MSc in Economic Policy from SOAS University of London.

Jie Xiong

Researcher

Jie Xiong

Jie Xiong is a Chinese technologist, translator, and editor. He has participated in the digitisation process of multiple leading enterprises in China. He has written and translated more than ten books, most of them related to information technology and digitisation. His latest translation is of Cybernetic Revolutionaries, a book about the Chilean technological Project Cybersyn during Salvador Allende’s administration. He has an MBA degree from the University of Liverpool and is a senior researcher at the Sichuan Institute for High Quality Development.

Marco Fernandes

Researcher

Marco Fernandes

Marco has a BA and MA in history and a PhD in social psychology from the University of São Paulo. He has worked with popular movements for two decades and helped form the research group on evangelism in politics in the Tricontinental (Brazil) office. He currently lives in Beijing and has been researching and publishing work related to geopolitics from a Global South perspective, as well as on various aspects of China’s economy, politics, and culture. He is a co-founder and co-editor of the Dongsheng Collective.

Grace Cao

Project manager

Grace Cao

Grace Cao is the project manager of Wenhua Zongheng and a Chinese-English interpreter. She holds a master’s degree in translation and interpreting from China Foreign Affairs University. Her work focuses on international communication and exchanges across the Global South, in particular cross-cultural understanding, gender issues, and linguistics.

Pan Africa Projects

Inkani Books

Vijay Prashad

Editor

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad (born 1967 in Calcutta, India) is a historian and journalist who is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, an inter-movement research institute of the Global South associated with the International Peoples Assembly. His weekly newsletter from the institute reaches almost two million people. He is the author of over forty books, most recently (with Grieve Chelwa) How the International Monetary Fund Suffocates Africa (2026) and the two award winning histories The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2007) and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (2013). Prashad has twice been awarded the Muzaffar Ahmed Prize.

To reach Vijay for an interview, event, research, writing, or other request, please write to [email protected].

Tariro Takuva

Editor

Tariro Takuva

Tariro has extensive experience in finance and operations. She works in different capacities to support organisations and movements on the African continent that are focused on facilitating community and societal engagement, education, advancing and promoting social justice, human rights, and furthering democracy and equality.

Aphiwe Ngalo

Managing Editor

Aphiwe Ngalo

Aphiwe is a popular educator, media practitioner, and project manager. She holds a BA in Journalism and Media Studies from the University Currently Known as Rhodes, South Africa, where she is completing a postgraduate diploma in Advancement and Resource Mobilisation. Aphiwe works to redress apartheid legacies through popular education, grassroots campaigns, and community media. She currently serves as the editor and project manager of Inkani Books. Previously, Aphiwe coordinated youth and community education programmes supporting movements for urban land and housing justice. Her interests include spatial justice, urban reform, and using media and resource mobilisation to build community power.

Desmond Fonseca

Associate editor

Desmond Fonseca

Desmond is a historian, academic, and organiser. He is currently a PhD candidate in history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches courses on political economy and decolonisation. His academic research is focused on the histories and theories of national liberation and pan-Africanism in Portuguese-colonised Africa and beyond. Desmond has edited several books on and by Amilcar Cabral with 1804 Books and has served as the editor-in-chief of Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies. He is also a member of the Amilcar Cabral Foundation in Praia, Cabo Verde, as well as UAW 4811, a union of academic workers at the University of California.

Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

Associate Editor

Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

Mika is an educator and researcher. She is part of the Pan Africanism Today Secretariat, which coordinates the regional articulation of the International People’s Assembly and is also part of the No Cold War coordination committee, a peace platform promoting multilateralism and maximum global cooperation. She is also part of Dongsheng, an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society, and hosts The Crane: An Africa-China Podcast.

International Advisory Board

  • Neville Roy Singham
    Chairman
  • Abdallah Al-Harif
  • Carmen Navas
  • Cosmas Musumali
  • Madhav Kumar Nepal
  • Manuel Bertoldi
  • Neuri Rossetto
  • Stephanie Weatherbee Brito

The team include employees, contractors and volunteers.