Florencia is from Mexico City. She has worked and advocated against forced disappearance in Mexico as a researcher, lecturer, and activist in Mexico and the United States for more than almost two decades. She collaborated with organizations such as the History Memory Project at John Jay College/CUNY, the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Latin American Network at the International Sites of Conscience. Florencia has taken for several years creative writing courses at The Writers Studio and at Gotham Writers where she completed her full-length memoir about immigration. Her literary work has been featured in Los Acentos Review and Restless Immigrants Workshop Blog. She is a reader for The Masters Review where she looks avidly for stories from underrepresented writers. She holds a BA in History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was a Columbia University Human Rights Advocate in 2009 and an OHMA Summer Fellow in 2010.

Florencia’s research interest is focused on Native American National Monuments in the Southwest, the Borderlands, and American collective memory. Also, she is interested in documenting the stories of those who suffered forced disappearance in Mexico and its borders, as well the searching journey of those who love them.