José Barrientos RastrojoFull Professor (‘Profesor Titular’) and Director of the BOECIO center (Philosophy for People Deprived of Liberty and at Risk of Social Exclusion), Director of the Ibero-American Network of Research in Philosophical Practice, Director of the International Journal of Philosophical Practice HASER since 2010 (Q2 in JCR 2022, Q3 in Scopus, C1 in Dialnet and Q3 in SJR). Director of six international research projects, author of more than 300 publications (with translations into Portuguese, Italian, Russian and English) and more than 200 lectures. David Sumiacher D’AngeloGeneral Director and founder of CECAPFI (Educational Center for the Autonomous Creation of Philosophical Practices), President of CECAPFI International (present in Mexico, Argentina, Italy, Colombia, Belgium and Uruguay), Director of the Master's Degree in Philosophical Practices (the only master's degree on the subject in the Spanish-speaking world) with agreements with ten universities around the world. There he has founded a Research Center and also a Publishing House specialized in philosophical practices. He is co-founder and first president of the Mexican Association of Philosophical Counseling, the only association at present that certifies the professional practice of philosophical counseling in Latin America. He has been an organizer of the International Conference on Philosophical Practice with the National Autonomous University of Mexico and chaired the thematic section of philosophical practices of the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome, 2024. Sumaya BabamiaSumaya Babamia is a South African educator, researcher, and speech-language therapist whose work explores the intersections of philosophical inquiry, neurodiversity, and inclusive pedagogy. Her scholarship advances autism-led approaches to learning, ethics, and communication, drawing on Philosophy for/with Children and critical posthumanist perspectives. She completed her PhD in Education at the University of Cape Town, where she examined philosophical inquiry with autistic children through a relational and more-than-human framework. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including major academic gatherings in Japan, Europe, Latin America, and North America, where she contributes to evolving conversations on philosophical inquiry and emergent possibilities for teaching and learning.
