Prize Winners

She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida (2011). She is currently an ICREA researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on indigenous and local knowledge systems and their contribution to contemporary environmental problems, such as biodiversity loss and climate change.

From 1999 to 2004, she lived with the Tsimane in the Bolivian Amazon and has since conducted extensive fieldwork in Spain, India, Mexico, Cameroon, Indonesia, and Senegal. She is a co-founder of the Laboratory for the Analysis of Socio-Ecological Systems in a Global World (LASEG), which studies the effects of global change on socio-ecological systems.

She has actively contributed to international policy efforts such as the Global Change Assessments and Transformative Change Assessments, the IPBES-IPCC report, and the UNESCO Earth Network.

In recognition of her pathbreaking transdisciplinary research on human-environment relationships.  Her work emphasizes the importance of indigenous and local knowledge systems in both climate action and conservation.

She brings truly unique perspectives to our common agenda for global transformation of how we understand the environment and how we act to protect it.