Dr. María Alejandra Espinosa is a Mexican archaeologist. She earned her PhD in archaeology from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, where she focused her research on native and indigenous cultures from the south of Mexico. She conducted her post-doctoral research on indigenous Mayan cultures and carried out her fieldwork in various states throughout Mexico.
Dr. Espinosa is a former Professor of Anthropology at the Autonomous Yucatan University, Mexico, and has worked with vulnerable adolescent girls who have been victims of child trafficking within the country of Mexico. Her areas of specialization include domestic violence, education, child trafficking and social inequalities. She is the former co-founder of the school Nek’il Kuxtal, located in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, which aims to eliminate economic disparity in primary education. Dr. Espinosa currently resides in a Mayan community in the south of Mexico, where she established a non-profit equestrian association to help vulnerable people, through horse connections. She is dedicated to mitigating structural poverty and gender-based violence throughout Mexico.
Gender-based violence/domestic violence, Trafficking, Violence against children/child abuse
In 2021 I volunteered in Casa Crisal a non-profit organization, in the state of Yucatan, a refuge that assists girls victims of trafficking, who need to be hidden from their own family in an unknown house. My job was to accompany a group of adolescents for 24 hours once a month.