María Vargas is a Ph.D. student in Humanities at Concordia University in Montreal and is a research assistant at the Acts of Listening Lab in the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and a member of the Center of Sensory Studies. Maria is currently investigating how dance, sensory ethnography, and video creation facilitate listening between different cultures in the context of migration individually and collectively. Her work finds its way into the intersection between embodied anthropology and art creation.  She is interested in retrieving social memory to ignite self-awareness and agency through participatory methodologies.  Maria holds a B.A. in Social Anthropology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and an M.A. in Visual Anthropology and documentary making from F.L.A.C.S.O. University. During this period, she researched the politics and poetics of representation in participatory documentary editing with indigenous communities. In her interest in feminist perspectives, Maria has made dance and documentary videos where ethnographies of sensory memories allow the creation of empowering narratives for women in diverse contexts.