Postdoctoral Affiliate
Abril is a migration, gender, and participatory research consultant, as well as a trained art therapist and psychologist specialising in social and cultural psychology and gender and sexuality studies. She holds a DPhil in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, where she examined the intersections of gender, sexuality, and survival migration in Latin America using mixed and arts-based methods.
She is currently Lead Researcher on a project on attitudes toward migrant inclusion in Mexico, and co-researcher on “Sanctuaries of Hope: Co-Creating Knowledge on South-South Queer Migration with Bogotá’s LGBTQ+ houses.”
Her work spans civil society, intergovernmental, and academic contexts, across Mexico, the UK, and East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, and Burundi), focusing on migration, asylum, wellbeing, and entrepreneurship.
She is also a dancer and yoga teacher.
