Socio-economic and impact research
Baseline studies, socio-cultural analysis, community indicators, impact pathways, qualitative and mixed-method research, and evidence for policy or assessment processes.
Applied anthropology · Environmental decision support
Complex territories. Shared knowledge. Decisions that endure.
I work where environmental decisions encounter territory, rights, community life, and different ways of knowing. My role is to make those relationships legible without flattening them—and to turn evidence into decisions people can act on.
View consulting CV · PDF- 15+ years
- Canada & Latin America
- Indigenous & institutional partners
Consulting practice
From situated research to usable decisions
I bring social research, participatory practice, environmental analysis, and spatial tools into the same conversation. Each engagement is designed around the decision at hand and the relationships that decision will affect.
Participatory methods and facilitation
Co-definition workshops, interviews, collaborative planning, knowledge-system dialogue, and validation processes built around careful listening and traceable decisions.
Environmental governance and biodiversity
Research and strategic advice connecting ecological evidence with territorial governance, climate adaptation, conservation priorities, and community concerns.
GIS and decision-support tools
Spatial analysis, multicriteria models, interactive maps, dashboards, and accessible visual tools that clarify patterns, choices, and uncertainty.
Selected work
Projects grounded in territory, evidence, and collaboration
These projects show how I move between field research, institutional questions, community knowledge, and technical systems while keeping their relationships visible.
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Peatlands · Climate change · Spatial decision support
MERIP — Multidimensional Ecological Richness Index for Peatlands
Postdoctoral research developing a participatory and spatial framework for understanding peatland richness across Eeyou Istchee–James Bay. The work brings biodiversity, hydrology, carbon, culturally significant species, and community-defined priorities into a present-day and 2050 decision-support environment.
- 205,000 km² study area
- 561,129 wetland polygons
- Interactive ArcGIS dashboard
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Indigenous resilience · Participatory planning
Climate resilience in the Colombian Amazon
Socio-economic baseline research and participatory planning with Indigenous organizations, communities, and institutional partners in Leticia and Puerto Nariño, developed in collaboration with FUCAI and the World Food Programme.
- Community-based research
- Baseline and monitoring
- Collaborative planning
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Anthropology · Extraction · Territorial governance
The Value of the Sacred
Long-term doctoral research in the Colombian Amazon examining how resource extraction, sacred value, political authority, and relations among people, territory, and other-than-human life shape environmental conflict.
- Ph.D., McGill University
- Ethnographic research
- Amazonian territories
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Public policy · Indigenous statistics
Population, poverty, and public-sector evidence
Applied research with Colombia’s national statistical system on Indigenous multidimensional poverty and population processes, translating complex social realities into evidence that can support institutional planning while making methodological limits explicit.
- Socio-economic indicators
- Public-sector research
- Methodological translation
Knowledge mobilization · Digital public scholarship
Manguaré.red — an Amazonian knowledge platform and podcast
Founded in 2020, Manguaré connects cultural memory, territorial research, Indigenous perspectives, multimedia communication, and public scholarship. The platform and its Spanish-language podcast are currently in a phase of maintenance and consolidation.
A return to territory
Territory is not the backdrop to a decision. It is part of what that decision must learn to understand.
Field-based inquiry · Relational environmental research
How I work
A relational approach with practical consequences
Good consulting does more than collect information. It asks how evidence was produced, whose knowledge enters the room, what remains uncertain, and how a recommendation will travel back into people’s lives and territories.
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Listen from the territory
Begin with the people, histories, responsibilities, and ecological relationships that give the question its real shape.
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Relate the evidence
Bring qualitative, quantitative, spatial, institutional, and community-held knowledge into a transparent analytical structure.
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Make choices visible
Clarify trade-offs, assumptions, uncertainties, and the practical consequences of different courses of action.
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Return useful results
Translate findings into maps, reports, workshops, recommendations, or tools that partners can question, use, and carry forward.
About
Anthropology for decisions that remain accountable to place
I am a Colombian and Canadian Ph.D. anthropologist and applied social scientist based in Montreal. For more than fifteen years, I have worked across Canada, Colombia, and Panama with Indigenous communities, public institutions, NGOs, academic partners, and international organizations.
My practice has developed in the space where environmental decisions encounter territory, memory, rights, and community life. I combine field-based inquiry with policy analysis, participatory methods, biodiversity research, and GIS to help different forms of evidence speak to one another without pretending they are the same.
I hold a Ph.D. in Anthropology from McGill University and completed postdoctoral research at UQAT’s Institut de recherche sur les forêts, where I developed MERIP. I continue to collaborate on MERIP and support work connected to the Institute. I am also the founder and director of Manguaré.red, an Amazonian knowledge initiative currently in a phase of maintenance and consolidation. I work in English and Spanish, with intermediate French.
- Ph.D. Anthropology · McGill University
- Postdoctoral research & MERIP collaboration · UQAT–IRF
- Founder & director · Manguaré.red
- Based in Montreal · Available across Canada and internationally
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