Lorena Méndez Barrios is a feminist activist, visual artist, and research professor at the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, and a cofounder of the collective La Lleca. She studied visual arts at the Academia Nacional de San Carlos UNAM and in the Cultura Visual program of the Universidad de Barcelona and currently works in prisons for adolescents and men in Mexico City. She is working on doctoral studies in Enseñanza Aprendizaje de Artes Visuales and in Arte y Representación at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Barcelona.