Xènia Domínguez is a PhD student in African Studies (ISCTE-IUL), Master in Social Sciences: Culture and Development in Africa (URV) specialized in research, Master in Development and International Cooperation (UGR) and graduated in Psychology (URLl). She has over ten years of professional experience working in Spanish and international cooperation organisations as coordinator and project manager on the following themes: feminisms, social movements, natural resource management, civil society, solidarity economy and governance. From 2008 to 2009 she worked as a project manager in Mozambique and from 2010 to 2016 in Guinea-Bissau. During these years she carried out several studies and diagnoses at the local level with the aim of identifying social, economic, political and environmental phenomena and the dynamics of population adaptation. She has submitted articles at various congresses: V Congress on University Development Cooperation and the X Iberian Congress on African Studies. He is currently developing his PhD research entitled 'Fisheries, identity and culture: conflicts and strategies for change in the management of fisheries resources in West Africa (Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau)'.