Institute for International
Cooperation and Development Studies

Andrea Rey López

Andrea Rey López

Education for social change

Biography

Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Sociology from Paris IV-Sorbonne University. Master's degree in Sociology from EHESS (France) and postgraduate degree in Collective Memories, Human Rights, and Resistance from CLACSO. She has also trained in: comprehensive protection of human rights defenders, extractivism and community resistance, actions against patriarchal violence, forced displacement, gender, conflict and peace, and transformative educational action with a focus on gender and care.

She has been part of social organizations in territories such as France, Peru, Kurdistan, Guatemala, and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), working in international cooperation and education for social transformation. In the Basque Country, she has collaborated with Mundubat Fundazioa (2022-2025) and is currently part of Hegoa’s Education team.

She has participated in internationalist feminist networks based on an intersectional perspective and focused on sexual and gender diversity. She is enthusiastic about popular education and its critical epistemologies, emancipatory feminist economics, care and sustainability of life, and the defense of land/bodies/territories as key to ‘Buen Vivir’ (Good Living) and collective memory.

Themes

Cooperación al desarrollo, Derechos humanos, Feminismos, Economía feminista, Diversidad sexual y de género, Educación popular

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