Luz Marina Becerra Panesso

activist and social worker

Luz Marina Becerra Panesso is a Colombian social worker and activist who founded La Comadre, the Coordinación de Mujeres Afrocolombianas Desplazadas en Resistencia, in 2007. She is also the secretary general of AFRODES, the National Association of Afro-Colombian Displaced Persons. Becerra Panesso has been working for over two decades to advocate for the rights of Afro-Colombian people who, like her and her family, ha...