Meztli Yoalli Rodriguez Aguilera is a PhD Candidate in Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin (African Diaspora Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies portfolios). She received her Bachelors in Social Anthropology in Universidad de las Américas, Puebla and a Masters in Social Anthropology in Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS). She has published in academic journals in El Salvador, Brasil, Mexico and Germany. She also has a forthcoming article about her research methodology for a book entitled: Feminists Anthropologies in Mexico edited by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).  Her research focuses on environmental racism and anti-black, anti-indigenous racism and sexism in Mexico’s mestizaje national project.