About the presenter: Adriana Angel, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the School of Communication, at Universidad de la Sabana in Chía-Colombia. Adriana is a rhetorical scholar of democracy in Latin America who studies the role of rhetoric and power in democracy and, especially in concrete associated phenomena such as corruption, political ideology, and social movements. Holding undergraduate and master’s degrees in communication from Colombia, she pursued a Ph.D. in Communication Studies at Ohio University under a Fulbright scholarship. Her academic experience in both Colombia and the United States has provided her with insights that contribute to understanding and facilitating conversations between North and South academic traditions. Thus, Adriana has organized international symposiums that foster collaboration and mutual understanding between scholars from Latin America and Anglo America. As the lead editor and author, she published “Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas” (Penn State University Press, 2021) in which she, as well as the invited authors, show how democratic ideals are irreducible to a single national perspective and reflect on the ways social minorities in the North, Central, and South America engage in unique political discourses. She has also conducted studies related to the rhetorics of the “Socialism of the twenty-first century” and neoliberalism in South America as well as studies on the communicative construction of corruption in Colombia and Guatemala.