Fátima Valdivia Ramírez

Fátima Valdivia is a Mexican Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, lawyer and social anthropology, specialized in Indigenous rights. Since 2009, she has collaborated with Rarámuri communities in the Tarahumara region, northern Mexico, on indigenous rights related issues. She is a co-founder of Cecaddhi, an NGO mainly focused on the defense of indigenous territories, from a gender and anti-racist perspective. Her research focuses on how drug traffickers in the Tarahumara region exercise a kind of sovereignty that enacts gender, racialization, and colonialism, and how women (rarámuri and mestizas) are facing this and defending land under a high violent context and patriarchal structures both raramuri and mestizo.