Geographer, Urban Planner, and Amazonia Advocate

Research Interests and Expertise

As a Kitu-Kara Indigenous woman geographer and urban planner (2010-present), I work with Amazonian Indigenous organizations in the area of territorial politics, specifically at the intersection of critical urban planning, decolonizing praxis, Indigenous feminist geographies, and Indigenous political theories. I am interested in multiple forms of socio-political action and their relationship to various modes of oppression in contemporary democracies with settler-colonial legacy. I study questions about Indigenous mobility, gender, resurgence, and the relationship between urbanization and planning. I am especially interested in the socio-political and gender roles that the practice of Indigenous mobilities and planning could play in struggling against social injustices and advancing an egalitarian society in Amazonia. In my research, I study the Indigenous mobilities and planning practices drawing on Indigenous ways of being and knowing, theorizing their capacity to bring legal, social, and political change.