In 1994 I had the great opportunity to join the MBA Program offered by the Centre for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México.

 

My main interest was always to study the history and culture of the Ainu people of Northern Japan. As I went deeper in this field, I found a powerful resistance struggle against racial discrimination and cultural assimilation. Furthermore, the chance to meet Professor Chizuko Ueno -who was a visiting scholar at El Colegio in 1996- helped me focus my research on gender issues within this resistance struggle. Later, en 1997 I joined the Ph.D. program to prepare an overview of the contribution of the Ainu women to the resistance struggle through their literary work. I spent two years in Tokyo, Japan, studying under the guidance of Dr. Ueno and gathered all the materials to write my thesis. It has been a long and rewarding journey that, happily, did not end with my dissertation's defense. 

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I am currently doing research on human rights and education in Japan with a multidisciplinary team from El Colegio de Mexico and other academic institutions from Mexico and Spain. My research on human rights considers gender, indigenous rights, racism, disability, racism and xenophobia in Japan.