Ana María Solarte Bolaños is a predoctoral student in Sociology at the University of Barcelona, where she is developing her thesis under the supervision and guidance of Dr. Adam Kornel. Havas and Dr. Arturo Rodríguez Morató. His research focuses on the Sociology of Music, of Culture, and Afro-Latin American Studies, with a focus on the intersections of race and class. His doctoral work analyzes the configuration of Afro-diasporic socio-musical phenomena such as salsa choke in urban contexts, exploring how these cultural expressions reflect and structure racial and class distinctions in neighborhood and migrant environments. 

She has an interdisciplinary background and holds a Master's degree in Latin American Studies with a focus on politics and culture from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, where she received a research scholarship (Ecuador, 2016). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Ethnoeducation (2015) and a Bachelor's degree in Music (2009) from the Universidad del Cauca, Colombia. She has a track record in research and social intervention in Colombia. She has participated as a researcher in Rural Development projects at the Institute of Intercultural Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali (2012-2023), addressing topics such as territorial, interethnic, and intercultural conflicts in various regions of Colombia. She has also collaborated on projects on pedagogical and curricular practices with Afro-descendant populations (Universidad del Valle, 2019-2021) and on methodologies for teaching popular arts (Instituto Popular de Cultura, 2022). Her teaching and research experience includes having been a professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Santiago de Cali (2016-2018) and in the Department of Intercultural Studies at the Universidad del Cauca (2012-2013).