Laura Correa Ochoa is a PhD Candidate in Latin American and Caribbean History at Harvard University. Her dissertation focuses on questions of race, citizenship and black and indigenous mobilization in 20th century Colombia. Examining black and indigenous participation in cross-class and cross-ethnic spaces of mobilization such as labor unions, peasant leagues, and political parties, her dissertation studies the differences/similarities between how they made claims (for equality, citizenship, social justice and cultural particularity), connections between them and shared histories of their struggles from the 1930s to the 1990s. It evaluates how ideas of race, national belonging and political mobilization have shaped the kinds of claims each group could make, the repertoires and strategies they deployed and the possibilities for cross-racial solidarity. She graduated in 2013 with an honors bachelor degree in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto.