Dr. Mariaelena Huambachano
Areas of Specialization
Environmental Justice, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Food systems, Sustainable Development, Public Policy, Indigenous Philosophies of Well-Being, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Agriculture, International Food Security, International Development, Indigenous and Western Research Methodologies.
Appointments
2021
Syracuse University (Tenure Track) Fall 2021
Assistant Professor, Environmental Humanities: Native American and Indigenous Studies
2019
University of Wisconsin, Madison (Tenure Track) Fall 2019
Assistant Professor, Civil Society and Community Studies
2018
California State University, Northridge (Tenure Track) Fall 2018
Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies and Sustainability Studies
2016 - 2018
Brown University
Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of American Studies and Ethnic Studies and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
Education
2017
The University of Auckland – New Zealand
Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dissertation: “Through an Indigenous Lens Food Security is Food Sovereignty: Case Studies of Māori of
Aotearoa and Quechua people of Peru.”
Committee: Professor Nigel Haworth (advisor) and Dr Rachel Wolfgramm (advisor)
Subfields: Indigenous Studies, Decolonizing Methodologies, Environmental Studies, Development Studies, Public
Policy, Management and Governance.
2011
Massey University – New Zealand
Masters of Management and International Business
Thesis: “Sustainable Development in South America: A Case Study of the Agricultural Sector of Peru”
Advisors: Associate Professor Gabriel Eweje and Dr Andrew Asquith
Subfields: Latin American Studies, Development, Agriculture, Food Systems, International Relations,
Postgraduate Diploma in International Business and Development
(First Class Division Award)
Subfields: Development Studies, Public Policy and International Relations
2009
Book Manuscript
Recovering our ancestral foodways: Indigenous traditions as a recipe for living well
University of California Press; Publication date August 2024
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
*In Spanish
2022
Huambachano, Mariaelena, Arulingam Indika, Bowness Ewan, Korzenszky Anna, Mungai Catherine, Termine Paola and Wittman Hannah. “Knowledge networks to support youth engagement in sustainable food systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.867344/full
2020
Huambachano, Mariaelena and Cooper, Lauren. Values, Knowledge, and Rights Shaping Land Use in the Peruvian Amazon: The Shimaa and Diamante Case Studies. Case studies in the Environment, 4:1-14 https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2020.1234945.1
2020
Lori DiPrete Brown, Sumudu Atapattu, Valerie Stull, Claudia Irene Calderón, Mariaelena Huambachano, Marie Josée Paula Houénou, Anna Snider and Andrea Monzón. From a Three- Legged Stool to a Three-Dimensional World: Integrating Rights, Gender and Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainability Practice and Law. Sustainability, 12: 1-22 https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229521
2019
Huambachano, Mariaelena. Indigenous food sovereignty: Reclaiming food as sacred medicine in Aotearoa New Zealand and Peru. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 43(3): 1-7 https://dx.doi.org/10.20417/nzjecol.43.39
2019
*Huambachano, Mariaelena. Soberanía alimentaria indígena: Recuperando el alimento como medicina sagrada en Aotearoa Nueva Zelanda y Perú. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 43(3): 1-7 https://newzealandecology.org/system/files/articles/HUAMBACHANO%20%28SPANISH%29_FINAL
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2019
Huambachano, Mariaelena. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Foodways in the Andes of Peru. Review of International American Studies, 12(1), 87-110. https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.6866
2018
Huambachano, Mariaelena. Enacting food sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand and Peru: revitalizing Indigenous knowledge, food practices and ecological philosophies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, (2) 9, 1003-102 DOI:10.1080/21683565.2018.1468380
2015
Huambachano, Mariaelena. “Food Security and Indigenous knowledge: El Buen Vivir-Sumaq Kawsay in Peru and Tē Atānoho New Zealand, Māori-New Zealand,” The International Journal of Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 5 (3), 33-47.
2012
Huambachano, Mariaelena. Carbon Emissions Scheme: Analysis of the Impact of the NZ ETS, The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability, Volume 8, (1), 51-59
Book Chapters
2022
Huambachano, Mariaelena. “The Role of Indigenous Values and Traditions For Restoring Indigenous Food Sovereignty”. In Nancy Postero, Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj, Katharina Rickshtul, and John Andrew McNeish. Routledge Handbook on Critical Indigenous Development. Taylor Francis and Group Limited.
2020
Huambachano, Mariaelena. “Indigenous good living philosophies and regenerative food systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Peru,” in Jessica Duncan, Michael Carolan, Johannes S.C. Wiskerke. Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems. Taylor Francis and Group Limited, p. 38–49. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429466823
2014
Huambachano, Mariaelena. “Business and Sustainability: The Camisea Project in the Peruvian Amazon Basin,” in Gabriel Eweje (ed.) Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Emerging Trends in Developing Economies (Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability, Volume (8) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, p.215 – 240.
2015
Huambachano, Mariaelena. “The Ayni Principle: An Indigenous theory of value creation, in Chellie Spiller and Rachel Wolfgramm (ed.) “Indigenous spirituality at work: Transforming the spirit of business enterprise,” Volume (5) Information Age Publishing Inc, p. 99-116.
International Reports
2022
UNESCO IPBES
Jacobs, S., Mwampamba, T., Termansen, M., Ahn, S., Castro, Dendoncker N., A., Ghazi, H., Gundimeda, H., Huambachano M., Lee, H., Muckerjee, N., Nemogá, G., Palomo, I., Pandit R., Poofoun J., Schaafsma M., Hernandez M., Filyuskina A., Choi, A. in Chapter 3: Assessment of valuation methods, in IPBES (July 11, 2022).
The IPBES methodological assessment report on the diverse values and valuation of nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Balvanera P., Baptiste B., Christie M., Pascual U., and Gonzalez-Jimenez D., (editors). IPBES Secretariat, Bonn, Germany.
2021
FAO HLPE - High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition: Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems.
H. Wittman, B. White, M. Huambachano, I. Arulingam, J. Leandro, C. Mungai, P. Termine, E. Nicoletis and A. Korzenszky, FAO Committee on World Food Security (CFS), Rome, Italy. https://www.fao.org/3/cb5464en/cb5464en.pdf
2018
Huambachano, Mariaelena. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Division for Inclusive Social Development – Indigenous Peoples. United Nations Report on the Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Development on Indigenous Territories– UN E/C.19/2018/7
English | Français | Español | Русский | ﺮﻋ | 汉语
2017
Huambachano, Mariaelena. Brown International Research Institutes (BIARI). Report on Climate Change as a Trigger for Innovative Practices in Small-holder Farming Systems (Climate Change TIPiFS). (BIARI) of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, USA.
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
2022
Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) Grant Program, USA $25,000
Research Project: Our own foods as healing: The role of Indigenous food-ways in restoring justice and leading a health and well-being agenda.
2022
The Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Grant, $35,000
Awarded by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University to co- host Indigenous (Māori) philosopher Krushil Watene in Spring 2024.
2022
Ray and Smith Humanities Grant, Syracuse University, USA $15,000 Symposium: “Our own foods as healing: rights, resilience and restoring health and wellbeing”.
2020
Fall Research Competition, UW-Madison, USA $40,000
Research Project: Indigenous Knowledge, Biodiversity, and Regenerative Food Systems
2020
Global Health Institute – UW, Madison, USA $23,600
Research Project: Living Well: Indigenous Philosophies for Global Resilient Food Systems.
2020
Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies (CommNS) – UW, Madison, USA ($9,940)
Research Project: Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Americas and Beyond.
2020
2018
2018
Nelly McNally Fellowship – UW, Madison, USA
New Zealand Embassy Research Grant (US $10,000)
Research Project: Scaling up Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Biodiversity Preservation in the Highlands of Peru to Promote Sustainable Development Goal Number 2 (Zero Hunger and Poverty).
Emerging Scholar Award, “International Food Security,” The Common Ground Publisher Ltd, Vancouver, Canada (US $600)
2018
College of Humanities Faculty Research Award for “Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Justice.” Office of the Dean of the College of Humanities, CSUN ($10,000).
2018
Salomon Mini-Grant Award for “Climate Justice and Biodiversity Preservation” Office of the Vice President for Research, Brown University ($500).
2018
Academic Programming Fund for “Political Agroecology and Indigenous Entrepreneurship.” Office of the Dean of the College of Humanities, CSUN ($450).
2017
2017
Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, Summer Research Grant ($3,000) Brown University
Institute of Environmental Science and Research (NZ$19,000)
Reserach Project: "Indigenous Perspectives of Food Security Within The Context of Climate Change: First Nations-Māori people.”
2016
2015
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
2012
Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University
Competitive Travel Grant, Food & Health Program, The University of Auckland (NZ$2,500)
Doctoral Publication Award, The University of Auckland (NZ$1,000)
Food and Health Programme Seed Funding Award (NZ$10,000) for “He kai kei aku ringa”— “The food is in my hand”: Local and global perspectives on Indigenous food security within the
context of climate change.”
Doctoral Publication Award, The University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ $1,000)
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) (NZ$3,000)
Reserach Project: “Food Security and Indigenous knowledge: Māori and Andeans of Peru”.
Doctoral Publication Award, The University of Auckland (NZ$1,000)
Doctoral Research Travel Award, The University of Auckland (NZ$ 2,500)
Doctoral Conference Travel Award, The University of Auckland (NZ $ 2,500)
Best paper Award, The University of Auckland Doctoral Conference (NZ$1,000)
Doctoral Publication Award, The University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ$1,000)
Doctoral Conference Travel Grant, The University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ$2,500)
Graduate Scholar Award, The Common Ground Publisher Ltd, Vancouver, Canada (NZ $500)
Presentations
Invited Talks
(* Scheduled and/or moved online due to COVID-19)
2023
Invited Speaker, in the Law Review's 2023 Symposium on Environmental Justice. Organized by the University of Miami Law Review (UMLR), Coral Gables, Miami, 10th to 11th February 2023.
2023
Invited Speaker, in the Coastal Carolina University’s Colloquium on Sustainability.
Organized by the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Conway/Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 7th April 2023.
2022
Invited Speaker, in the UN 2022 Sustainable Development Transformation Forum (SDTF). “Forum during Session 4 (on SDG 15 – Life on Land)” organized by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD), South Korea, 3rd March 2022.
2022
Invited Speaker, in the virtual Symposium “Towards A Flora of the Future: An Initiative on Forensic Botany, Climate Activism, Territorial Justice, and Liberatory Feminism”, organized by the University of Virginia, School of Architecture, 6th January 2022.
2021
Keynote speaker, in the virtual Global Awareness Conference at SUNY Oswego, “Indigenous Food Sovereignty”, hosted by the Oswego, State University of New York, 5th November 2021.
2021
Invited Speaker, in the Global Network of Agriculture Sciences Gathering, to discuss about the “High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition: Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems”, organized by the “Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences”, 6th October 2021.
2021
Invited Speaker, in the virtual FAO COP26 and World Food Forum, “Harnessing the power of youth for enhanced climate action in the lead up to COP26”, Co-Organizers: Government of the Netherlands and the FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB), 1st October 2021.
2021
Keynote speaker, in the virtual Global and Health Conference, “Connecting Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Wisdom,” which will be hosted by the Global and Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on 14th April 2021.
2021
Invited Guest Lecture, in the course ‘Sustainability and Well-Being,’ taught by Professor Hannah Wittman at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada on 19 January 2021.
2020
Invited Speaker, in the virtual Fall Distinguished Speakers Series, hosted by the department of Geography and Geology at West Virginia University, 15th October 2020.
2020
Invited Webinar Speaker, in the ‘Earth Day Conference, “Indigenous Food Systems,’ hosted by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW, Madison on 20 April 2020.
2020
Invited Webinar Speaker in response to COVID-19, “Indigenous Good Living Philosophies linked to Indigenous Food Systems”, organized by KIN Knowledge Network, Aotearoa New Zealand, 14th April 2020.
2019
Invited Speaker, in the “IPBES Nature Values Assessment’s Second Author Meeting” for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on “diverse conceptualization of multiple values of nature”, which will be hosted by UNESCO in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country-Spain, from 21-15 October 2019.
2019
Invited Speaker, in the UNESCO World Forum “Culture and Food: Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Development” held on 12 and 13 September 2019 in Parma, Italy.
2019
Invited Speaker, in the “Indigenous and local knowledge dialogue workshop” for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on “diverse conceptualization of multiple values of nature”, which will be hosted by UNESCO in Paris, France, from 20-21 March 2019.
2019
Invited Speaker, in the 18th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) under the theme of “Traditional knowledge: Generation, transmission and protection”. UN Headquarters in New York from 22 April to 3 May 2019.
2019
Invited Speaker, “Food is Sacred: It is our “Right to Food and Holistic Well-being” in the “Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ (Intellectual House)” Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium,” The University of Washington, Seattle from 3-4 May 2019.
2018
Invited Speaker, “Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Justice and Well-being,” The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 24.
2018
Invited Speaker “Indigenous Ecologies of Well-being and Sustainable Development.” Beedie School of Business, Faculty of Graduate Studies. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 22.
2018
Expert Speaker, “Enacting Food Sovereignty in New Zealand and Peru”, Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Development in Territories of Indigenous Peoples.” United Nations Head Quarters, New York, January 23-25.
2018
Invited Speaker, “Ecological Philosophies, Food Sovereignty and Justice”, Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. New York City, NY, April 15.
2018
Keynote speaker, “Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Anthropocene: Symposium on Eating in the Anthropocene,” Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, April 26-27.
2018
Distinguished Speaker Seminar, “Biodiversity, Food Sovereignty and Justice in Food Systems,” Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, March 2018
2018
Keynote Speaker, “The Khipu Model: An Indigenous Political Theory and Research Methodology.” The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, March 15.
2018
Invited Speaker, “Food, Agriculture, and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Institute at Brown for the Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 5.
2018
Invited Speaker, “The Right to Food Security/Sovereignty as seen through an Indigenous Lens.” Watson Institute of International Affairs and The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University, April 12.
2018
Invited Speaker, “Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Climate Justice,”
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.” United Nations, Head Quarters, New York, 24 April 2018.
2017
Invited Speaker, “Seed sovereignty and biopiracy issues threatening food security.” United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), New York, UN Headquarters, April 24.
2017
Keynote Speaker, “Revitalizing the Food Systems, Well-Being and Development,” Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Agricultural and Food Sovereignty Summit, Michigan, United States, April 22.
2017
Keynote Speaker, “Enacting Food Sovereignty in New Zealand and Peru: Revitalizing Indigenous Knowledge, and Food Practices,” Indian Valley Organic Farming, San Francisco, CA, April 29.
2017
Invited speaker, “The Khipu Model: An Indigenous Research-Based Methodology,” Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University, Providence - U.S.A, April 7.
2016
Invited expert commentator, “Taiwan and the Pacific” and “Global Indigeneity,” Transpacific Taiwan International Symposium. Brown University, Providence, 21 November.
2016
Invited Speaker, “International Food Systems: New Zealand, Peru and First Nations People: Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit,” Gun Lake Pottawatomi’s Jijak Camp, Michigan, United States, April 21-24.
2016
Invited Speaker, “Sustainable development and governance: Treaty Rights and Indigeneity.” Massey University – Albany, Auckland, New Zealand, March 24.
2016
Invited Speaker, “Through an Indigenous lens, Food security is Food Sovereignty: Case studies of Māori of Aotearoa and Andean people of Peru,” Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education and Co-sponsored by Penn State’s Inter- Institutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, PA, April 27.
2016
Invited Speaker, “Kai Mārika ("Absolutely Food"): Workshop on First Nations, Māori and Quechua peoples’ Food Security,” The University of Auckland Business School and the Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development, Auckland, New Zealand, November 14.
2015
Invited speaker, “Indigenous Knowledge as Key for the Development of a Food Sovereignty Framework,” Center for Advanced Study of International Development, Michigan State University, MI, October 16.
International Conference and Workshop Presentations
2022
International Fund of Agriculture Development (IFAD) Conference. Paper entitled. Refocusing Youth Employment in Food Systems: Understanding the Role of Agency and the Right to Work for Decent Work and Food Systems’ Transformation. Rome, Italy, 21-24 June 2022.
2020
9th Biennial International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC) 2020, paper entitled “Indigenous Wellbeing Philosophies linked to Regenerative Food Systems.” University of Waikato, New Zealand, 18 - 20 November 2020.
2020
Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), paper entitled “Indigenous Philosophies of Wellbeing: Kai (food) sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand and Peru”. Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 June to 3rd July 2020.
2019
Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), paper entitled “ILO Convention no.
169: Opportunities and Challenges for Indigenous Peoples’ 30 Years On.” UCL Institute of Education, London, 9-11th September 2019.
2019
Native American Indigenous Association (NAISA), paper presented entitled “In Indigenous Food Sovereignty We Trust: It is our “Right to Food and Dignity” in the “Food Sovereignty in Practice: Eating, Cooking, and Growing in Indigenous North America, Latin America, and Oceania Panel.” University of Waikato, New Zealand, June 26-29.
2018
Native American Indigenous Association (NAISA), paper presented entitled “Seed Sovereignty, Climate Justice and Well-being” in the international “Indigenous Seed Sovereignty from Oceania, Latin America and North America” panel. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), CA, May 17-19.
2018
Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFVH) and Association for the Study of Food and Society, paper entitled “Seed Sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand and Peru: ‘He kai kei aku ringa’—‘the food is in my hand.” Madison, Wisconsin, WI, June 13-16.
2017
Native American Indigenous Association (NAISA), paper presented about Enacting Food Sovereignty in New Zealand and Peru: Revitalising ecological philosophies and Indigenous development, in the international “Indigenous Food Sovereignty” panel. Vancouver, Canada. June 22-24.
2017
Environmental Climate Justice Conference, paper presented about “Revitalising Indigenous Knowledge, Food Practices and Ecological Philosophies,” Sydney, Australia, November 8.
2016
IFIP’s Latin America Indigenous Funders Conference, paper presented on “Indigenous Food Systems and Alternative Frameworks to Development: Objiwe/Anniishinabeg (North America), Māori people, and Quechua peoples”. Lima, Peru, October 26.
2016
Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Agricultural and Food Sovereignty Summit, paper entitled “Indigenous Knowledge and Food Security: Buen Vivir/Allin Kawsay in the Andes and Te Atanoho Aotearoa-New Zealand”. Great Lake Pottawatomi, Hopkins, Michigan, MI, April 26.
2015
Agrifood Research Network Conference XXII paper entitled “Indigenous Knowledge: A key for the development of an alternative food security framework.” University of Otago,
Queenstown, New Zealand, December 5-7.
2015
2015
Global Food Security Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 12-13.
The University of Auckland Doctoral Conference, paper entitled “The Ayni (Reciprocity) Principle: An Indigenous Theory of Value Creation”. Auckland - New Zealand, September 10-11.
2014
United Nations Climate Change Conference, paper entitled “Scaling up pathways of food sovereignty and Climate Change: A case study of Lares region of Peru,” Lima- Peru, December 10.
2013
International Food Studies Conference, paper entitled “Indigenous Good living principles as a key for food security,” Prato-Italy, October 9-10.
2013
United Nations (UN) Doctoral Workshop on the Sustainable Development Millennium Goals Post Agenda 2015” paper entitled “Indigenous knowledge is vital for the preservation of biodiversity for Food Security.” Columbia University, NYC, March 12-14.
2013
Climate Change Conference, paper entitled “Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Resilience,” Palmerston North, New Zealand, June 24.
2013
International Business Conference, paper entitled “Indigenous Peoples’ cultural values are Fundamental for the Advancement of Sustainable Development Initiatives”, Hobart, Australia. December 5.
2012
International Conference of Sustainable Development, paper entitled “An analysis of Environmental Policies: The New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme”. Vancouver, Canada, January 11-13.
2011
International Conference of Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability, paper entitled “Sustainable Development in South America: A case study of the agricultural sector of Peru.” Hamilton, New Zealand, January 3-5.
Teaching and Mentoring Experience
Syracuse University, USA
Spring 2020
Instructor, NAT/REL 300 “Indigenous Food Cosmologies”
Instructor, NAT/400/600 “Reclaiming Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty” (Research Methodology)
Fall 2022
Instructor, NAT/REL 300 “Indigenous Food Cosmologies”
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fall 2019
Instructor, CSCS 345: Strategic Planning for Non-profit & Community Organizations
Instructor, CSCS 812: Mixed and Indigenous Methods in Community Research
Spring 2020
Instructor, CSCS 345: Strategic Planning for Non-profit & Community Organizations
California State University, Northridge
Spring 2019
Instructor, Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Sustainability
Instructor, Global Indigenous Studies
Fall 2018
Instructor, Introduction to American Indian Studies
Instructor, Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Sustainability
Brown University
Spring 2018
Instructor, Global Indigeneity, Sustainability and Food Politics
Spring 2017
Instructor, International Indigenous Studies cross-listed with the Center for Latin American Studies, American Studies and Anthropology
The University of Auckland - New Zealand
Fall 2015
Tutor for the graduate business course “Globalization and Development” The University of Auckland
Spring 2013
Fall 2013
Tutor for the undergraduate course ‘Introduction to International Business” The University of Auckland
Tutor for the undergraduate course “Business Ethics and Society” The University of Auckland
Guest Lecturer
Brown University
PLCY 2555: Environmental Policy, From the ground Up (2017); on Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Biodiversity Preservation.
The University of Auckland
MGMT 737: Sustainability (2016): on Global Food Security
Massey University, Aoteaora New Zealand
13.218: Environmental Philosophy (2016); on Environmental Justice
15.203: Business and Sustainability (2015); On Environmental Policy: The New Zealand Emission Trading Scheme.
University of British Columbia, Canada
LFS 250 Lan, Food and Community: Indigenous well-being as seen through an Indigenous lens.
Mentoring & Student Support
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Meeting on a weekly basis with students: offer support in research skills, critical analysis, theory, and writing for both a wider professional audience and interdisciplinary scholars
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Advise students on development projects, environmental and food-related community research projects , and cross- disciplinary courses offering.
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Help connect prospective graduate and non-graduate students with faculty members, local and global community partners in project-based learning experiences that support student development and advance community needs.
Affiliations
2020 - 2021
Visiting Senior International Scholar in the School of Humanities at Massey University in Albany - New Zealand
2020 - 2021
Visiting Senior International Scholar in the Dame Mira Szászy Research Centre at the University of Auckland Business School in New Zealand
2019 - Present
2019 - Present
Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA): Agency, Well-Being and Justice
4W Director of Biodiversity Protection and Indigeneity, UW-Madison
4W Initiative – Women & Wellbeing in Wisconsin and the world
2018 - Present
2018 - Present
2018 - Present
2018 - Present
2015 - Present
Research Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, UW-Madison
Nelson Institute of Environment Studies, UW-Madison
Research Center for Culture, History and Environment, UW-Madison
Latin American Center and Iberian Studies Program at the UW-Madison.
UN, Delegate and Associate Researcher in the Academic Network of the United Nations Permanent Forum of Indigenous Peoples’ Issues (UNPFII), Headquarters in NYC, U.S.A
International and Community Engaged Scholarship
2020 - Present
FAO Committee on World Food Security (CFS) High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) Project Team Member: 16th HLPE report on “Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems.”
2020 - Present
Member of the Executive Council of Chirapaq (Center of Indigenous Cultures)
Chirapaq is a Peruvian indigenous association formed by Andean and Amazonian people, who work for the affirmation of the cultural identity and the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples.
2019 - Present
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Lead Author, Values Assessment of Nature. IPBES Report on methodological assessment regarding the diverse conceptualization of multiple values of nature and its benefits
2018 - Present
Elected Secretariat, Abyiayala (Latin Indigeneity) Academic Network, this network was established in 2016 to strengthen Indigenous Scholarship in the Americas in conjunction with the Native American Indigenous Association (NAISA).
Professional Associations
Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA)
American Food Sovereignty Network (NAFSN)
Agriculture, Food, and Human Values (AFHVS)
Australian and New Zealand Agri-Food Research Network
Sustainable Agriculture Education Association (SAEA)
Native American Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Academic Service
2019 – 2021
Director of Indigeneity and Biodiversity – UW-Madison 4W Health and Well-being
2019 – 2021
Advisor – Global Health Institute – UW-Madison-Wisconsin
2016 – 2018
2016 – 2018
Research Associate - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity (CSREA), Brown University.
Conference Organizing Committee Member, “International Funders of Indigenous Peoples (IFIP),” Pacific Region Hui (Conference), Opotiki, New Zealand
2016 – Present
Cultural Consultant - Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP), and Office of Research Integrity (ORI) - Brown University.
2015– 2016
Elected Business School - PhD Candidate Representative
2013 – Present
Associate Editor “The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability The Common Ground Publishers, Illinois Urban Champaign, U.S.A
2010 – Present
Associate Editor “Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability.” The Common Ground Publishers, Illinois Urban Champaign, U.S.A
As a Referee and Assessor
2020 – Present
Journal Reviewer – AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
2018 – Present
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, peer-reviewed scientific journal
2015 – Present
Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, peer-reviewed scientific journal
2011 – Present
The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, peer-reviewed scientific journal
Professional Language Proficiency
Fluent in English
Fluent in Spanish
Well-versed in Indigenous languages of Māori and Quechua