ICAS Suramérica
Nicolás Jiménez
ICAS South America Conference Director
Jiménez is a Colombian academic recently graduated from La Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, with a BA in Philosophy. He is an animal rights and a political activist involved with both, the peasant struggles against the injustice of capitalism in his country, and with the animal liberation movement, he thinks goes hand in hand. He is the cofounder of a political youth network called, Red Libertaria Popular Mateo Kramer, where he act from his animal liberation collective on abolitionist studies, The Center for Abolitionst Studies on Animal Liberation. He is currently developing a project to teach school students animal liberation, from a political an eco-pedagogical perspective, in order to involve them with the reality of non-human animals within their context. He is now doing his postgraduate studies in Ecological Economy and is working on a research about Cattle farming, speciesism and paramilitary violence in Colombia. He is planning, for the foreseeable future, a gathering between several peasant organization form South America, mainly from the Andean Region, to discuss common problems and the practical, political and ecological tools needed to confront them.
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Fabiola Leyton Donoso (Chile)
She is a Graduate in Social Work from the Universidad Católica de Chile, a Master in Political Philosophy from the Universidad de Chile and Master in Bioethics and Law from la Universidad de Barcelona where she is, nowadays, coursing her Ph.D studies in philosophy on the issue of bioethics and animal rights. She work as a research teaching intern in the Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho de la Universidad de Barcelona, where she coordinates de Magazin of Bioethics and Law. She has worked in different animal defense organization in Chile and abroad. Her sensibility with the victims of cultural and social violence has been an incentive for her academic and political training and for her perform as a worker and activist against the deeply causes of this violence. In order to do that, she advocates in defense of a Global Bioethics that, in the name of Global Justice, claim on behalf of the rights of those less favored by the cultural and economic prevailing system: the non-human animals.
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Diego Paredes Goicochea (Colombia)
Goicochea is a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the National University of Colombia, and a Ph.D. student in Philosophy from the same institution. At the moment he is a full time associate professor of the Universidad Autónoma de Colombia and chair professor in the Politic Science Department of the National University of Colombia. He has published a monograph on Nietzsche entitle: “El eterno retorno de lo mismo en Nietzsche” (CESO 2005), and a book on the same author: “La crítica de Nietzsche a la democracia” (Unal, 2009). He has also published a wide variety of articles on contemporary political Philosophy and aesthetic. He is member of the Centro de Investigación Libertaria y Educación Popular (CILEP), a project that, through militant research and popular education, seeks to offer tools to examine and comprehend the Colombian reality, in order to promote and foster libertarian organizational forms.
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Janneth González (Colombia)
Dr. González is Professor of computational and molecular biology at the Javeriana University (Bogotá, Colombia). She received her Bachelor of Science degree and her Master degree in Computational Biochemistry and her Ph.D from the Javeriana University. Her current efforts focus on theoretical and computational research in biology, biochemistry and bioinformatics. Her research interests also include mathematical models, with particular emphasis on the development of new algorithms for molecular analysis. She is a vegan and member of the Vegan Society of Colombia where she work exposing animal cruelty and enslavement and advocate for the abolition of non-human animal exploitation rather than its regulation.
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Omar Ramírez (Colombia)
Ramírez is an Environmental and Public Health Engineer, specialist in Environmental Impact Assessment for Public Projects and Master on Human Environmental Systems in Argentina with an interdisciplinary training on different environmental contemporary issues. He has an aptitude of research and the capacity to use various pedagogical tools in order to resolve different kinds of environmental conflicts. Hi is a vegetarian activist interested in political ecology, environmental impacts, technological dangers, social organizations, among others. He is member of the Popular Environmental Movement (MoAmPo in Spanish), in which he develops environmental popular pedagogy with population with social-economic problems due to the greed of big companies.
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Daniela Romero Waldhorn (Chile)
Waldhorn is a vegan activist from Chile, a socio-environmental psychologist, Master in Development Cooperation and a specialist in local sustainable development. In Chile she founded a local headquarter of Anima Naturalis International. She has also participated and led a wide range of demonstrations on behalf of animal rights in Chile, Spain and Ecuador, carrying out, along other things, an extensive investigation about the suffering and enslavement of non- human animals in circuses in Chile and the abolishment of non- human animal experimentation in laboratories in the same country. Nowadays, Daniela is the general secretary of Anima Naturalis International where she works, permanently, in a diversity of initiatives on politics, education and training in animal rights. She has written articles for Animalis Magazin in Spain and is a regular columnist in the Mexican journal Pensamiento Libre, where she exposes animal cruelty in relation to our consumption habits. She has also worked – until today – in the direction of projects in sustainable development in dependent countries. Her last investigation in socio-environmental phycology was internationally prize-winning. Daniela has been a professor in psychology and ethics in her country and has given classes on solidary economy and sustainable development in Spain.
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