Graduate Students
This is a partial list of current graduate students in the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation.
Marisela Chávez
PhD Candidate, Forest & Conservation Science
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Personal Summary
I am a Latin American food cultures and socio-environmental justice researcher and educator. I have spent time learning about the cosmovision of indigenous people in Costa Rica as it relates to biodiversity conservation and have worked with MST (Landless Workers Movement) members in Mato Grosso, Brazil to understand their lived experiences of food sovereignty. My current research focuses on the relationship between food culture and agrobiodiversity conservation in two indigenous communities in Mexico, a Mayan community in Yucatán and a Mixteco community in the Sierra Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca.
Research Interests
Crop biodiversity conservation, foodways, and policy in Mexico; Latin American culture and society