I really dont see the empowering side of this congress. All plenary speakers from the website, are seated in their home countries Ivory Towers in Europe/US, only one male from Argentina, and one outstanding female from the MIT.
It seems to me like a nice holiday in Cancun for Principal Investigators. With a trendy “Empowering Developing Countries, Low Cost” white male washing. I dont see how this is empowering for Latin American and POC scientists.
Privilege is when you think nothing is a problem, because is not a problem for you personally. And what I see here is how this conference wants to acquire social capital the same way McDonalds has been trying to do so by selling Quinoa Burguers.
Alexis Johnson