Dr. Karina Ochoa Muñoz was born in Mexico City in 1975. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, as well as a Master’s degree and a Doctorate in Rural Development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). She currently serves as a Full-Time Tenured “C” Faculty Researcher in the Department of Sociology at UAM Azcapotzalco, is a member of the core academic faculty for the Doctorate in Feminist Studies at UAM Xochimilco, and coordinates the Rural Sociology specialization track for the Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Sociology at UAM Azcapotzalco.

She is a Level II National Researcher in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII). She is a co-founder and member of the RED de Feminismo/s Cultura y Poder. Diálogos desde el Sur, as well as a member of the Decolonial International Network (DIN). She is recognized as one of the leading figures in decolonial feminisms in Abya Yala.

She has collaborated with various rural organizations in Mexico, as well as with social movements and feminist collectives across Latin America. She has delivered lectures and participated in seminars in Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Morocco, the Philippines, and Europe.

Among her notable publications are:
(2026). “Algunas coordenadas para repensar nuestras luchas en tiempos neocoloniales”. Revista Nuestramérica, No. 27, Chile.
(2025). “Vías para desmontar la episteme moderno-colonial y sus métodos de la dominación a partir de apuestas feministas y descoloniales”. Revista da Sociedade de Pesquisa Qualitativa em Motricidade Humana, Vol. 9, No. 3, Brazil, pp. 360–372.
(2024). “La descolonización hoy es más que un desafío para las ciencias sociales”. In Romero, G. and Rivera, R. M. G. (coords.), Enfoques humanísticos en Educación. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica and CONAHCYT, pp. 21–39.
(2023). “Die Debatte um die Amerindios/as. Zwischen Bestialisierung, Feminisierung und Rassifizierung” (trans. P. Jehle). Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, No. 342, Germany, pp. 211–221.
(2022). Introducción a los Estudios Poscoloniales, Subalternos y Descoloniales (Teaching Guide). Mexico: UAM Azcapotzalco.
(2021). Feminismos descoloniales latinoamericanos para principiantes (Reading Material). Mexico: UNAM.
(2021). “¿Monólogos interculturales o diálogos descoloniales?”. Tabula Rasa, No. 38, Bogotá, Colombia, pp. 213–226.