Mari Mari Narváez

Mari Mari Narváez is the Founder and Executive Director of Kilómetro Cero (Km0), an emergent non-profit organization that promotes reducing the power gap that enables the State’s excesses against the people – particularly those exerted by the Puerto Rico Police. Km0 develops projects that bolster citizen empowerment in the areas of state use of force, repression of dissent and gender violence. She has a master’s degree in Journalism and Latin American Studies and doctoral courses in History and Gender Studies. She is also a writer and columnist in various newspapers in Puerto Rico and has co-authored the books Hablan sobre Juan (Fundación Juan Mari Brás, 2018); Del desorden habitual de las cosas (Capicúa, 2015); Fuera del quicio (Editorial Santillana, 2008); and Palabras en libertad: entrevistas a los ex prisioneros políticos puertorriqueños (Editorial Claridad, 2000).