Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés is an anthropologist, researcher, and teacher.
She has published several academic articles, newspaper articles, and opinion pieces. She is the author of one of the books that make up the Afro-Colombian Social Sciences Library, entitled “Insurging Citizenship: The Process of Black Communities in Colombia.”
Her areas of research include historical ethnography, black Marxism, critical theory of race and ethnicity, historical sociology, social movements, black feminism, and anti-colonial and popular republicanism.
She is currently the director of the Observatory on Racial Discrimination (a space coordinated by the University of the Andes, Dejusticia, and the Black Communities Process, PCN).