Maritza Montero is from Venezuela, has a Psychology degree from the Central University of Venezuela, Masters in Psychology from the University Simon Bolivar and a Doctorate in Sociology from the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences at the University of Paris.
Professor and director of Graduate Central University of Venezuela, as well as graduate teaching at several universities in America, Europe and Australia.
She is one of the pioneering figures of the Latin American Social Psychology, she has written numerous articles in scientific journals, books, book chapters and delivered lectures in different conferences. Her productions consist of original developments in Social Psychology, Political Psychology and Criticism and Liberation Psychology, which are also characterized by the richness of its research and analysis.
Between 1999 and 2005, at the Catholic University Andres Bello, has led in the community area a degree in Community Clinical Psychology, developing an innovative project that seeks to create new therapeutic, available to groups of poor ways, and depending on the dominant popular culture in them.
Among other information, it is noteworthy that she has received an award from the American Psychological Society in 1995 and the National Science Award in the area of Social Sciences in Venezuela in 2000.
In the last three years she has published in Buenos Aires a books trilogy that has systematic and critical to one’s own community psychology in Latin America thus realizing her theories, concepts, methods and techniques. Besides being one of the most important researcher in the area, she is a committed professional to transformation and liberation of Latin American societies.