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Valentina Ortúzar Martínez is an undergraduate student in fifth year of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Science, belonging to University of Chile. Since she starts the program in 2017, she has been demonstrating continued interest in a lot of study fields like immigration, gender studies, sociology and archaeology. As the matter of fact, in her second year of basic cycle, she participated in several forums and debates, one of the most important was in Valdivia, in the ENEA (2018), where she presented a paper about immigrant women in southern Chile, receiving great recognitions for it and the possibility of work with the sociologist María Emilia Tijoux and the anthropologist Sonia Montecino. In her third year of specialization in social anthropology, she was teaching assistant of "Anthropology III" complementing the subject with a strong feminist critique, she did two years of assistantship. In addition, in her seventh semester, she was selected of a study exchange at UNAM, in Mexico, complementing her training as a social anthropologist, taking subjects from archaeology. Recently, Valentina is doing her thesis to get her university degree as a social anthropologist. In the future, she wants to take a master's degree in gender studies and archaeology.