Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj is a Maya-K'iche' social anthropologist, journalist, and writer. In 2000, she obtained a master's degree in Social Anthropology, and in 2005, she earned her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, United States. She is the author of the following books: "The Small Commercial Bourgeoisie of Guatemala: Class, Race, and Gender Inequalities" (2003), "Indigenous Peoples, State, and Land Struggle in Guatemala: Survival and Negotiation Strategies in the Face of Globalized Inequality" (2008), co-authored with Aileen Ford, "Access of Indigenous Women to Land, Territory, and Natural Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean" (2018), "Moons and Calendars, Guatemalan Poetry Collection" (2018), and "Justice was Never on Our Side: Cultural Expertise on Armed Conflict and Sexual Violence in the Sepur Zarco Case, Guatemala" (2019). She has published articles in books and academic journals. From 2003 to 2023, she was a weekly columnist for the Guatemalan newspaper elPeriódico. She has been a visiting professor at several universities: in 2016 at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas; in 2017 at Duke University, North Carolina; in 2018 at the Watson Institute at Brown University, Rhode Island; at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University in California, and at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, where she has taught courses on the history and indigenous resistances in Central America and Latin America. She is part of the struggles in her community, which have been ongoing since the Spanish invasion in 1524 to the present day. In 2020, for her work, she received the Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship from LASA/Oxfam America.