Sebastián Mauro holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He is a Full Professor in the political science program at the same university and an Adjunct Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). His research interests include subnational politics in federal countries, political representation, and the relationship between institutional politics and social protest.

Nicolás M. Somma holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame. He is an associate professor and former president of the Institute of Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and an associate researcher at the Centro de Estudios de Conflito y Cohesión Social (COES, Chile). His teaching and research focus on political sociology, social movements, and historical-comparative sociology. He has published in journals such as Party Politics, Social Movement Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Latin American Politics and Society, and Comparative Politics, among many others. Currently, he is completing a mixed-methods project on labor movements in Latin America and beginning a study on popular rebellions in the region since 1989.

Carlos Gabriel Torrealba Méndez is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (UNAM) and holds a Ph.D. in social sciences research from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico. He has published articles in journals such as NACLA Report on The Americas, Redes: Revista Hispana de Análisis de Redes Sociales, Bolivian Studies Journal, Cahiers des Amériques Latines, Revista Iberoamericana, and Revista Mexicana de Sociología, among others. Since 2020, he has served as Country Expert (Venezuela) for the V-Dem Project: Varieties of Democracy, specializing in participatory experiences in Venezuela.

Ana Natalucci holds a degree in Social Communication from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, a Master’s in Social Sciences Research, and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). She is an Independent Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), located at the Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales (EIDAES/UNSAM), where her work focuses on social mobilization, labor, unions, the popular economy, and gender. She is the director of the Observatorio de Protesta Social, affiliated to CONICET. Since 2018, she has been an adjunct professor of “Collective Action Theories” in the political science program at the UBA. She also teaches graduate courses at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Argentina campus, and at the UBA. In knowledge transfer and consultancy, she has concentrated on collaborating with social organizations, labor unions, and government agencies. Actively involved in regional and international networks connecting social movements and collective action, her most recent book, titled [título original em espanhol?] [Protests, Democracy, and Inequalities in the Southern Cone], co-edited with Priscila D. Carvalho and Nicolás Somma, was published by Prometeo.