Anthropologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with a Master and PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine. Full Professor in the Department of Geography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. With a long history of research on environmental movements and indigenous peoples, gender and indigenous feminisms, territorial feminisms, environmental justice, feminist political ecology, indigenous territories and extractivisms. Her current research focus on: gender and extractivisms, indigenous women, territorial-environmental demands and medialities, just transitions and indigenous territories
Dora Maria Téllez (1955–) was a commander of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. After the fall of the Somoza dictatorship, she became Minister of Health in the Sandinista government (1979–1990). Her work leading this ministry earned a special UN award (education, science, culture) for the remarkable progress achieved in an extremely poor country. During this period, she also actively advocated for women's rights. When the Sandinistas lost power in 1990, Dora Maria Téllez participated in the foundation of the MRS (Sandinista Renovation Movement) in opposition to Daniel Ortega's authoritarian practices, and later the UNAMOS party (Union for Democratic Renewal). Meanwhile, she became a historian and conducted extensive research on Nicaraguan history. Imprisoned from June 2021 to February 2023 in her country, she now lives in exile in the United States. She is currently a visiting professor at Harvard University (2024–2025)
