Rafael is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. He is from San Juan, Puerto Rico where he worked as a public-school History teacher for over 6 years and completed an M.A. in History at the Centre for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. His research interests include history education, critical pedagogy, coloniality, decolonizing pedagogy, textbooks, and participatory action research. Rafael is also an activist who has worked with various organizations throughout the years with the aim of promoting Puerto Rico’s political independence. His doctoral work is focused on decolonizing the curriculum from its Eurocentric framework and searching for endemicity amidst the chaos of Caribbean identities.