Pousadela, Inés M.

Inés M. Pousadela is a Professor at Universidad ORT Uruguay (Comparative Politics, Global Civil Society) and Senior Research Specialist at CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. She holds a PhD in Political Science (UB, Argentina), a Masters’ degree in Economic Sociology (IDAES-UNSAM, Argentina) and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science (UBA, Argentina). She has published several books, book chapters and journal articles on political representation, social mobilization, women’s rights, civil society, participation and accountability, as well as various resources for civil society practitioners in Latin America.

Simone Bohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on political parties in South America, gender and politics in Brazil, and the study of political tolerance and attitudes towards corruption in Latin America. She is the co-editor of Mothers in Public and Political Life (2017) and 21^st Century Feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean (forthcoming). Dr. Bohn is currently working on a SSHRC-funded research project about Brazil’s women’s policy agency. Her articles have been published in several scholarly journals, such as Politics and Government, Latin American Research Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Latin American Politics, and Comparative Governance and Politics.