Clelia O. Rodriguez is a global scholar, speaker, author, mom, and auntie born and raised in the ancestral lands of the Lenka Peoples, currently teaching in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). She is Founder and Academic Lead, SEEDS for Change; Gender Advisor, Global Affairs Canada; and the author of Who Are You Without Colonialism?: Pedagogies of Liberation (2023), co-edited with Josephine Gabi; Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain (2018); and Maternizando la Matriz. (2024).