We welcome a visiting scholar to the CSTS group

I graduated from Social Psychology at the Autonomous University of Queretaro (UAQ), where I researched topics related to consumerist culture. I then found an academic path through learning an indigenous language and the comprehension of the food production (instead of the analysis angle from consumerism). In Mexico, these topics are nationally relevant and contextually pertinent. The confluence of these derived in my participation in NGOs. When teaching became part of my work, I decided to do a master degree.

My Master’s is in “Amerindian Studies and Bilingual Education” also at UAQ. My thesis was a didactic proposal, which frames sociocultural aspects, to strengthen bilingual population (Otomí & Spanish) and to address food sovereignty from bottom up. UAQ gave me the medal for academic merit in 2016 for this work. After this master’s degree I’ve been teaching and collaborating in NGOs, regarding these subjects. In 2020 I worked in the Secretariat for Agriculture Development where I noticed that the participation of the main stakeholders hasn’t been considered to design public policies.

I am currently completing my doctoral studies, and my research topic is one outcome of this academic and professional pathway, taking as a cornerstone the epistemological discussions that hierarchize, order or support, specific knowledge, and certain methods. Positioning from a participative perspective, where extra academic visions are central to construct knowledge is compliant with the work Td-Lab and CSTS group does, and brought me here from Mexico as a visiting scholar. My research in the CSTS group aims to answer, how, where, why & by whom should public policies be elaborated in cultural and linguistic diverse contexts (as Mexico and Latin America).