Graduate in Sociology (UB), postgraduate in International Development (Setem/UPC) and Euro-African Master in Social Sciences of Development: Cultures and Development in Africa (URV), Vanessa is one of the founders of Wiriko, an organization dedicated to the dissemination of contemporary African arts and cultures. She is in charge of communication at the ONG Agua de Coco and believes in communication that serves social transformation, just like art. She is interested in artivism and feminism, and enjoys cooking in the kitchen and in the big cities imagining everything that is cooked in its streets. The music comes hand in hand with the parties she organizes as a promoter and DJ at Sonidero Mandril y Moto Kiatu, groups that spread in Madrid the tropical sounds and electronic music that sound in Africa and its diaspora.