Mónica Sánchez Hernández is an Indigenous-rooted, working-class woman from the Global South/Global Majority. She is currently a PhD student of Social Policy at Bristol University, having previously studied at universities in Brazil, Belgium, Mexico, and France. Her work experience has centered on education programmes for incarcerated men in Mexico City.

Her current research examines understandings of manhood within and without prison using art-based methods and decolonizing methodologies.