Diana Lorena Obando Valbuena
Diana Obando, born in Bogotá in 1987, is a writer and political scientist. Obando has led writing and collective creation projects aimed at fostering historical memory and reparations for victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. She is the co-founder of La Juntanza, a collective of women from different regions of Colombia that develops research-creation projects focused on revitalizing knowledge about herbalism and the relationships between humans and the plant and mineral world. The study of plants associated with oneironautics (the skill of traveling consciously within your dreams) marked the beginning of her journey into herbalism.