Guatemalan, feminist, human rights activist with the Center for legal action on Human Rights (CALDH) and defender of the right to memory.

For 4 years she has been in charge of CASA de la MEMORIA Kaji TULAM, which is an interactive space on the historical memory of Guatemala, from the perspective of women, Indigenous peoples and youth.From this space, she accompanies the process of exchanges of

knowledge, recovery of memory and resignification of history with youth, teachers, students and educational centers. CALDH also promotes artistic and cultural processes that link memory from the past-present. She has recently co-built a virtual exhibition process on historical memory in Guatemala, from the decentralization of memory and in contexts of Pandemic and virtuality.

M. COLY is a lecturer and a  founding member  of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.

M. COLY is also Consultant for Senegal  of the Project of Revitalization of the House of slaves,  funded by the U.S. Ford Foundation and the Senegalese State, in conjunction with  the International  Coalition of Sites of Conscience.

She has presented both nationally and internationally and was a featured presenter for the 2020 Women, Sex and Violence in Georgia: Symposium on Contemporary Issues in the Age of “Me Too” @Clark Atlanta University and at the 2020 John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation Virtual 11th Annual National Symposium for Reconciliation in America.   In 2019,  she was the Winter Chautauqua Artist-in-Residence for Enid Public Schools, where she presented Big Mama Speaks-A 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Survivor, by Hannibal B. Johnson to over 2,000 public school children,  2nd – 12th grade.  Co-presenter with Dr. Ann Dapice for the 2018 Women Are Sacred Conference “Resilience: Walking in Ancestral Footprints, Carrying Our Medicine,” Albuquerque, NM, and has trained among an international coalition for Women as Peacebuilders through the Just Governance Human Security-X Initiatives of Change-Caux, Switzerland on the Six Pillars of Human Security. She trained with Father Michael Lapsley, Institute of Healing for Memories-NA Workshop  in Ossining, NY. 

Her area of study and interest continues to search for meaning with our sense of place giving emphasis on the usage of reconciliation as a path to process what is discovered.   She draws on the need to present the historical accuracy of  African-American and Indigenous peoples voices and lived experiences.  She edited and directed the documentary by TKWolf, Inc. “Unheard Voices-Stalking in Indian Country” and “Unheard, Unseen” an Interview with Dr. Reid Melloy a leading stalking forensic psychologist.