Fourth visit to the Altiplano: participated in Cumbre de los Pueblos, Cumbre Social por la Acción Climática, and 5to Tribunal Internacional de los Derechos de la Naturaleza (Santiago) and Cambio Cimático, Transición Energética y Desarrollo(s) a Escala Humana (San Pedro de Atacama)
October
Guest lecture, “Environmental Issues,” University of San Diego
Guest lecture, “Women, Images, and Ideas,” San Diego State University
Launched #Decolonize4Climate on Instagram. Participants included students in “Women, Globalization, and Ecology,” San Francisco State University
Third visit to the Altiplano: collected groundwater samples and trained community members on microscope to view aquatic microorganisms
- 2018 -
November
San Diego Environmental Justice Week: Voices of TransAndean Indigenous Resistance: hosted community and legal representatives from the Salar de Atacama and Salinas Grandes for 10 days in San Diego for a series of public speaking events and meetings with local Indigenous, environmental, and environmental justice groupson lithium mining and resistance
Presentations at UC San Diego Sustainability Resource Center, Centro Cultural de la Raza, University of San Diego Kroc Peace and Justice Institute, and San Diego City College
Presentation, Environmental Justice Conference, San Diego City College
October
Workshop with UC Humanities Research Institute Feminist Science Collaboratory, UC Irvine
May
Guest lecture, “Life, Death, and the Human,” UC San Diego
April
Panel at University of California Graduate and Professional Council (UCGPC) Campus Climate Conference, UC Irvine
March
Second visit to the Altiplano: proposed research projects
January
Panel, “Indigenous Communities and Environmental Justice Locally and Across the Americas,” Enero Zapatista event series, San Diego
- 2017 -
August
First visit to the Altiplano: met community leaders and members in the Salar de Atacama, Chile, and Salinas Grandes, Argentina
Spring Quarter
Co-instructed SIO 114/ETHN 136: The Science and Critical Analysis of Environmental Justice, UC San Diego
- 2016 -
Spring Quarter
Co-developed and instructed SIO 114/ETHN 136: The Science and Critical Analysis of Environmental Justice, UC San Diego