Dr. Filiberto Penados is a Maya educator and activist scholar whose work focuses on indigenous education and future-making. He has held faculty positions at the University of Belize and Galen University and has been adjunct faculty at University of Toronto, University of Belize and University of Manitoba.  He has a long history of involvement in indigenous movements in Belize and Central America.  He has taught, written and presented on various topics including the decolonization of education and development.  He is currently Founding Advisor at the Centre for Engaged Learning Abroad and President of the Julian Cho Society (a Maya organization in southern Belize). He speaks to us about:

• decolonial education 
• development with identity
• indigenous future-making
• coloniality
• decentering power
• relationship to the land
• global solidarity and international legal instruments 
• having humility - and much more! 

He joins us from Belize.