Samantha Leyva is an Afro Mexican activist and beauty queen from Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero. She is a community organizer and supporter of Black Lives Matter who is bringing attention to the country's stereotypes of eurocentrism and social caste system. Samantha placed third in the Miss Mexico beauty pageant in 2016. Mexico does not recognize constitutionally the Afro-Mexican ethnicity distinction, which she is fighting to change. She is currently interning as a nurse.