Catalina Ortiz is Professor of Critical Urban Pedagogy and Director of the UCL Urban Lab. She is an urbanist who is passionate about spatial justice, her research uses decolonial and critical urban theory through knowledge co-production methodologies mainly in Latin American cities. Her work revolves around urban pedagogies, planning for equality, and southern urbanisms.

Her articles have been published in many journals including the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Planning Theory, Environment and Urbanization, Urban Studies and Cities. She is one the editors of Urban Studies and trustee of the charity Latin Elephant. She was co-curator of the ‘Race’ and Space curriculum (SAHGB Colvin Prize shortlist 2020). 

You can find out more details about her work at: https://drcatalinaortiz.com