Speakers - AWC 2024

Biography

My background is a social anthropologist with a Master’s Degree in Criminology and Sociology of the Penal System at the University of Barcelona. Currently, I am working on my PhD in Medical Anthropology. For more than 20 years, I have been dedicated to drug policy, harm reduction, human rights, and gender mainstream, combining research with the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of drug policies, programs, and services in Spain, Canada, Colombia, and Costa Rica. Also doing advisory work in USA and EECA Region. In 2016 I moved back to Barcelona to do the first study about women who inject drugs in Catalonia, that was the beginning of the XADUD, Network of Women who Use Drugs. In 2017 Metzineres. Environments of Shelter for Women Who Use Drugs Surviving Violence was born as the first harm reduction program only for women and gender non-conforming people in Spain. In 2020 Metzineres became a non-profit cooperative, where I am the founding director.