Cuban Aída Esther Bueno Sarduy, documentary filmmaker and anthropologist, holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Complutense University of Madrid and has completed advanced studies on race relations and black culture at the Center for Afro-Asian Studies at the University Candido Mendez, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has studied African American cultures in Latin America for several years, specifically focusing on African religions in Cuba and Brazil. She has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Studies on Migration and Racism (CEMIRA), part of the Department of Social Anthropology at Complutense University. Since 1999, she has worked as a professor for Middlebury College, NYU, Boston University, Hamilton and San Lorenzo programs in Madrid, teaching courses in Spanish Anthropology, Anthropology of Ibero-American and Migration Studies, as well as Cultural Diversity.