Airlín Pérez Carrascal is a political activist and human rights advocate for black women and Afro-descendant communities in Colombia. She has 10 years of experience as a community-based organizer with expertise in black communities’ justice, social mobilization, and political incidence against racial segregation. She is a critical race researcher and scholar in the field of African Diaspora in the Caribbean Coast, Decolonization, and Black Women’s resistances, and has worked as professor at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanity at university Tecnológica de Bolivar in Cartagena.