Prior to joining ESCR-Net, he spent several years engaged in international accompaniment and grassroots solidarity work in Colombia, where he documented human rights violations, accompanied land defenders and advocated for the protection of Black, Indigenous and Campesino communities resisting military occupation, corporate extractivism and dispossession. He holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and has worked alongside feminist organizations, environmental justice movements and anti-colonial struggles in Honduras, Mexico, and Cuba.