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Miriam Castillo Orozco

Ph.D. Student

Email: miriam.castillo@mail.utoronto.ca

Miriam is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research within the Environmental Science in Society Lab explores a pluralist transition that upholds Indigenous epistemologies from Abya Yala – Latin America in international climate politics. Her academic lens in environmental governance is based on the pluriverse, Indigenous reciprocal relationships, and complex thinking. For the CERC NEST project, she holds a PhD Research Fellowship focused on Knowledge Co-production and Adaptive Governance for Sustainable Transitions in Mexico City.

 

Miriam is also a member of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She has been a guest speaker in spaces such as the UN Headquarters invited by Her Excellency Razan Al Mubarak – UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28 – to talk about Indigenous values and knowledges for planetary health. She has been recognized with the UNFPA’s Youth 2030 Leadership, and more recently with the UTSC Inclusive Excellence Doctoral Fellowship. She has previous professional experience in the Mexican public sector and environmental and human rights defense organizations in Latin America. She holds a master's degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Bristol (UK) and a BSc. in Sustainable Development Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico). She is her ancestors’ accumulated efforts.

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