Maria is a Venezuelan activist who has lived in Catalonia since 2017. Since then, she has engaged in grassroots organising for street vendors’ rights in Barcelona, especially supporting her fellow Black migrant community. She is responsible for external financing at Top Manta, a clothing brand and store founded by undocumented African migrants to create job opportunities, promote the regularisation of migratory status, and rebelliously reclaim the othering Spanish term of manteros for street vendors. Maria holds a postgraduate degree in social economy business management from the UPF Mataró technocampus.