I am an interdisciplinary social scientist with a background in agroecology, human geography, and natural history. For the past fifteen years, I have worked in the Maya-Achí territory in Guatemala, on issues related to community development and sustainable agriculture; Indigenous knowledge and soil health; and the connection between small-scale food production, culture and wellbeing (buen vivir).

I am currently involved in participatory action research with the Association of Committees for Community Production (ACPC), a Maya-Achi organization implementing projects on coffee agroforestry, watershed restoration, and the development of homemade microbial bio-inputs/ fertilizers. I am also involved in ongoing research with the Welsh organization Cegin y Bobl, who are transforming local food systems by teaching schoolchilden how to cook and integrating local agroecological farms into school meal programmes, among other interventions.

Please contact me if interested in pursuing a research master's or PhD in these areas. See here for information about a specific opportunity in Wales.

Prior to my appointment at the University of Plymouth I taught food systems and human geography at San Diego State University and at Schumacher College, where I led the master's programme in regenerative food, farming, and enterprise. 

Society of Latin American Studies

Conference of Latin American Geographers

Editorial Board Journal of Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Steering Committee for The Agroecology Learning Collective (Landworkers Alliance) 

Board Member European Association for Agroecology