Projects
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Expanding the PandemiDiarios Archive: A Story of Community Resilience
Launched in 2020 by the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry at the University of Arizona, the PandemiDiarios project began as a rapid-response initiative to capture stories of resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over three years, the project supported dozens of artists, culture bearers, and community practitioners from Latinx and Native American communities who permanently archived their […]
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Project Management: Fronteridades
What happens when you bring together university resources, grassroots advocacy, and the power of storytelling at the US-Mexico border? You get Fronteridades, an initiative dedicated to changing the narrative around the borderlands by elevating the voices of people living in and crossing the border. As the Project Manager for this $1.5 million initiative at the […]
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Decolonizing Development Practice
Development is the product of a particular perspective, a vision of the world that does not necessarily coincide with others', particularly local and indigenous peoples. Though the concept of development has changed, some practices still recreate colonial oppression, including land grabbing for conservation and the exploitation of local and traditional knowledge. Some development projects fail because […]
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Grant-Making Program Coordination
Since 2018, I have conducted a grant-making process. The process included putting together a call for proposals, and bringing together a panel of experts from different fields within the University of Arizona and the community to evaluate the proposals we received. I facilitated the discussions with the panelists and helped them go through the guidelines […]
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Program Management
As Assistant Director for the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO), I managed the following programs: Ecosystems conservation program. CEDO implemented coastal conservation strategies for engaging local stakeholders to actively participate in the management and sustainable use of resources, further strengthening legal conservation instruments in these areas. We conducted field trips […]
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Implementing a Coastal Marine Spatial Planning and Management Process
When I served as Assistant Director for the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO, Inc.) in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, I participated in implementing a coastal marine spatial planning and management process. The bottom-up process, set up in a biological–fisheries corridor in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico, advocated for traditional community […]
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Economic Tools for Conservation Training
In 2014, I got a scholarship to attend the ten-day training Economic Tools for Conservation led by the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF). The training encompassed themes ranging from fisheries management and sustainable agriculture to business planning and finance mechanisms. Topics included principles and techniques to analyze, in a comprehensive way, the economic and environmental aspects […]
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Programa Pescadero Training Workshop Series
Between 2011 and 2015, I attended several training workshops and forums framed within the Pescadero Program. The program, funded by the Mexican Fund for Nature Conservation (FMCN), aimed to strengthen civil society organizations' institutional and leadership capacities in northwestern Mexico. Fondo Noroeste (FONNOR), developed the program to reinforce personal and institutional skills and design strategies […]
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Implementation of a Community Effort for the Conservation of Wetland Habitats in Peñasco, Mexico
In 2014, I procured funds from the State of Sonora Water Commission to led a participatory community project to engage users in a conservation initiative. The conservation target was a hypersaline wetland used for recreation, education, tourism, and oyster farming by the community of Peñasco, Mexico. In the absence of a legal conservation tool for […]
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Promoting an Initiative for Climate Change Adaptation in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico
In 2013, I secured funds for the design and implementation of a strategy to manage the effects of climate change on wetland habitats in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. The three-year project included dissemination of information on climate change in community forums, identifying marine and coastal habitat indicators for climate change, and developing a […]
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