Antonio Carmona Baez

Antonio Carmona Báez is a Puerto Rican political scientist specialised in International Relations and the Political Economy of Development. In the political sphere, Carmona Báez has been involved in labour organising and for four years has served as National Coordinator of Organisation for the Puerto Rican Association of University of Professors (APPU), by which he lead a successful campaign to guarantee health benefits for adjunct faculty in 2007. In Puerto Rico’s 2016 general elections, he ran for the mayor’s office of San Juan for the Working People’s Party, serving as the capital city’s first self-identified Black candidate.