OGDIS:
About Us
In August 2018, the Faculty of Economics and Business created the Office of Gender and Sexual Diversities (OGDIS) as the main executive tool responding to the “Institutional Policy Against Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Based on Gender or Sexual Orientation.” This policy aligns with the “New Protocol for Action in Cases of Sexual Harassment, Gender-Based Violence, Workplace Harassment, and Arbitrary Discrimination” from the University of Chile.
The OGDIS directly reports to the Dean’s Office, and its work is focused on promoting triestamental participation on issues related to gender, sexual diversity, and arbitrary discrimination. Among its actions, the office works actively and in coordination with the various Schools within the Faculty.
Its main tasks include activating protocols for assistance and guidance on complaints regarding Gender Violence, Sexual Diversity, Gender Identity, and Arbitrary Discrimination in these areas. Additionally, the office plays an active role in prevention, education, and providing guidance for the different community members, raising awareness about sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
Furthermore, the office has developed, with the involvement of various community members (academics, students, staff, and authorities), guidelines that inform strategic plans aimed at prevention and the redefinition of issues related to gender and sexual diversity. Policies on gender, sexual diversity, and arbitrary discrimination have also been implemented with a focus on prevention and self-care within the Faculty.
Directora OGDIS
Inés Castro Salazar
She is a psychologist with a Master’s degree in Gender and Culture Studies, with a focus on Social Sciences from the University of Chile. Throughout her career, she has specialized in the planning, implementation, and management of programs focused on gender-based violence, sexual violence, arbitrary discrimination, sexual diversities, and gender dissidence. This work has been carried out in programs with coverage in the metropolitan region, and more recently, at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Chile, where she connects the aforementioned gender topics with education, with a Triestamental approach. Additionally, she has extensive experience in clinical intervention in Crisis Intervention, extreme violence, sexual violence, gender violence, and sexual diversities.
Among her other professional activities, she was the Head and psychotherapist of the attention and promotion axes at the Care Center in a collaborator institution of the National Service for Minors (SENAME); psychotherapist in the Abuse Recovery Program (PRM) in a collaborating institution of SENAME; and Coordinator of the Women’s Metropolitan Sexual Violence Center (CVS), part of the Extreme Violence Line (LVE) in an institution partnered with the National Service for Women and Gender Equity.
Inés also holds a post-graduate degree in Psychotherapy and Psychodramatic Direction Techniques; Diagnosis and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse from the University of Chile; and a Postgraduate degree in Family Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
She is a Social Worker with a Master’s degree in Education, specializing in Quality Management, with 12 years of professional experience, focusing on the care, prevention, and technical analysis of gender-based violence at both the individual and community levels. Currently, her professional work is centered on developing, implementing, and executing proposals that integrate aspects of gender, sexual diversity, masculinity, and the incorporation of these issues into the academic and administrative functioning of educational spaces, as well as implementing policies for preventing harassment and arbitrary discrimination based on gender, providing initial support and assistance.
Throughout her career, she has specialized in addressing severe human rights violations, including sexual violence, and has worked with cases of serious rights violations and sexual violence in children, families, and adult women. She has contributed to individual processes of re-signification and supported the protection and restoration of violated rights. She has also led a psychosocial-legal team in reparatory interventions from a gender perspective and developed preventive work on Gender-Based Violence, raising awareness and visibility on the causes, manifestations, and consequences of this type of violence within institutional and community networks at the metropolitan level. This work has helped reduce secondary victimization of women who have experienced sexual violence.
Among her professional experience, she coordinated and developed the social area of the Sexual Violence Program belonging to the Ministry of Women and Gender Equity and executed by the Fundación León Bloy.
In the educational field, she has supervised fieldwork for Social Work students from universities in the Metropolitan Region.
Fabiola also holds a Diploma in Gender Theory, Development, and Public Policies from the University of Chile, and a Diploma in Gender and Violence from the University of Chile, among others.
