LASA Center Director Section Series on Indigeneity, Afro-descendants and other marginalized populations in Latin America: "Embracing Multiple Visions of Indigenous Education in Latin American Universities: Experiences in Mexico and Peru"

  

Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano is a social scientist and gender specialist who has worked extensively to develop research approaches and gender analysis in relation to the feminization of agriculture. She holds an MS and PhD in Agricultural Extension and Social Anthropology from Cornell University, NY and an Agricultural Engineering degree in Plant Science from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research and applied work has deep roots in Participatory Action Research (PAR) theory and practice while she has been deeply involved on mainstreaming gender in agriculture and conservation-related efforts. Currently, she is a Sustainable Development and Agriculture Professor at the Center for Latin America Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and an Adjunct Professor for the Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and Environmental Studies (ENST) at Georgetown University, in Washington DC.

Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz is an Ëyuujk Indigenous woman from Mexico and an interdisciplinary researcher. Currently, she is a consultant for the Indigenous Peoples Unit at FAO, and she is an associate researcher at the Free University of Brussels that does work on milpa/maize systems in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has worked in international development for more than 10 years. She does advocacy work on the role of Indigenous knowledge as key to the bioculturality of Indigenous Peoples´ and to solve global challenges. She also collaborates with different initiatives to promote Indigenous Women's access to education. 

Francisco J. Rosado-May, full professor at the Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo, is an agroecologist graduated at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with over 35 years of experience in research, higher education and outreaching in Mexico and other countries including the Americas, Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia. Francisco’s research field and academic training focuses on indigenous food systems, agroecology and indigenous education, aiming at developing concepts and methods towards intercultural/biocultural development by understanding the epistemology of indigenous knowledge, with emphasis on the Yucatec Maya, his own ethnicity. His experience in higher education includes appointment as President of Universidad de Quintana Roo and Founding President of Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo, both in Mexico. Francisco’s academic publications are available at Research Gate and Google Scholar.

Dafne Zapata Pratto is the Director of Campus Ministry and Director of the Institute for Protection of Minors and Vulnerable Persons at the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya in Lima, Peru. She has earned a Masters degree in Psychology from the Universidad Feminina del Sagrado Corazón and a Licentiate degree in Psychology from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.