Dr. Epsy Campbell Barr
She is President of the Permanent Forum on Afro-descendant people of the United Nations, President of the High-Level Commission on Mental Health and COVID-19 of PAHO, Member of the Jury of the Human Fraternity Award, Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica (2018-2022), the first Afro-descendant woman to occupy this high position in the Americas, Afro-Costa Rican leader, two-time Congresswoman and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship.
She is the main proponent of the Global Coalition Against Systemic Racism and for Reparations.
Honorary Doctor of Humanities of Humanities from Brenau University. She graduated as an economist and holds two master's degrees: one in International Development Cooperation and the other in Advanced Management and Policy Decision Techniques.
Lecturer and international researcher on issues of Social Inclusion, Human Development and Welfare, Antiracism, Women, and Human Rights, among others, in different universities and seminars organized by intergovernmental and multilateral organizations, as well as public institutions, electoral institutes, political parties in America and the Caribbean, and non-governmental organizations.
She has been recognized by the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) as one of the most important women of African descent in the world, in addition to receiving the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Justice in recognition of her work for the rights of people of African descent, received recognition from Forbes Magazine as one of the most powerful women in Latin America and the Caribbean (2019), by Estrategia y Negocios Magazine as one of the most influential women in the region (2019), by the African Renaissance and Diaspora Network as one of the most relevant Afro-descendant leaders in the region (2019).
She was the coordinator of the Network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women; coordinator of the Women's Forum for Central American Integration; Member and Founder of the Center of Afro-Costa Rican Women, Founder of the Black Parliament of the Americas and Founder of the Women's Forum for Central American Integration.
She was a proponent in Costa Rica of the approval of the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance (2016); a member of the Committee that prepared the "Regional Human Development Report (IRDH) for Latin America and the Caribbean: Multidimensional Progress" (2016) coordinated by UNDP; director of more than fifteen international research and author of 20 publications on social inclusion.