Prof. Dr. Mercedes Posada Meola

Prof. Dr. Mercedes Posada Meola is a Social Communicator, holds a Master’s degree in Social Development, and is a PhD candidate in Communication at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She is a professor and researcher at the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (Colombia), where she created the course “Communication, Gender(s), and Feminism(s)” and co-founded the Public Leadership School for Women, which won the Recla Award in 2022. Her research focuses on sentimental education, gender, and melodrama. She is a board member of Caribe Afirmativo, an organization promoting LGBTQ+ rights. In 2021, she was recognized as the best faculty professor at her university, and in 2009, she received the Roble Amarillo Award from the Universidad del Norte for her master’s thesis.