I am a Venezuelan mother of two young men. My academic formation is eclectic (art, anthropology, botany, conservation biology). I have conducted applied and theoretical research in two tropical ecological systems in Venezuela, the páramos of the high Andes among Parameros and lowland Amazonia among the Jotï, an Amerindian group. My projects are collaborative and participative and have been carried out emphasizing the collective construction of knowledge and the needs of the people involved like their human, health and territorial rights. My approach is trans-disciplinary, with diverse epistemologies, drawing in material and ideological, quantitative and qualitative aspects. My areas could be labelled as human ecology, etnoecology/ethnobiology, or ecogony. Since 2000 I have been working at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, teaching courses at the graduate level and providing advice for students. I have published about 70 texts. I am committed to the care and love of the Earth, human and non-human processes and dynamics.
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)