Catalina Ruiz-Navarro

Biography

Catalina Ruiz-Navarro is a Colombian feminist and journalist; co-founder and director of the Latin American magazine Volcánicas, focused on feminist journalism; and founder and director of the training program Creadoras Camp, for young feminist digital content creators in Latin America.
Ruiz-Navarro is the author of the book "Las mujeres que luchan se encuentran" (“Women Who Fight [For Social Justice] Find Each Other”), and in 2024 “Deseada: Maternidad Feminista” (Desired: Feminist Maternity), both with Penguin Random House. She has been a weekly op-ed columnist for the newspaper El Espectador, in Colombia, since 2008. She is also one of the founders of the Colombian feminist collective Viejas Verdes, which promotes sexual and reproductive rights. Her work as a journalist has been published in international newspapers such as The Guardian and The Washington Post. Ruiz-Navarro holds an undergraduate degree in Visual Arts with an emphasis in Fine Arts, as well as a degree in Philosophy