Bernd Reiter is a professor for the department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University. His publications include Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities (2021), Legal Duty and Upper Limits (2020), Constructing the Pluriverse (2018), among others. He served as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Public Policy, Brazil from 2021 to 2022.

John Antón Sánchez is a specialist in Social Development (Universidad del Choco, 2001). He has an MA in Sociology of Culture (Universidad de Colombia, 2005) and a PhD in Social Sciences (Flacso, 2009). He was formerly head of Social Sciences for UNESCO, Andean Region (2020-2011) and dean of Universidad Técnica Luis Vargas Torres de Esmeraldas (2016-2017). He has been a Flacso guest lecturer at the Chair of the African Diaspora in the Americas; he is a former professor of Anthropology at Universidad de San Francisco in Quito. His research topics are elated to the African diaspora in the Americas; race, racism, and inequalities; Afro-descendant social movement; theory of the rights of peoples and nationalities; as well as topics on Afro-descendant anthropology relates to ancestral knowledges, religiosity, and healing practices. He is interested in the history of Sub-Saharan Africa, legal sociology and the archeology of slavery. At the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), he is head of the Chairs on Fundamental Principles of Public Service, Theory of the State, and Public Policies.