Juanita Cuéllar Benavides holds a PhD in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ.) She also has a degree in Political Science from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2006) and a Master of Social Sciences from the UFRRJ. She is a member of the Studies Group on Discourse at UFRRJ. Her main interests are the topics of access to land and agrarian reform from a Latin American perspective. She is currently professor at the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia. She is member of the Justice Forum Project.