Luisa Maffi, Ph.D., is co-founder and Director of Terralingua, and spearheads Terralingua’s program of work. Luisa is a linguist, anthropologist, and ethnobiologist. She is one of the developers and proponents of the concept of biocultural diversity. In 1996, her interest in the…

I am an ethnobotanist and I have been researching and working on food plants of the Andes and medicinal plants and biocultural diversity in tropical regions of Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. At this time I am working on the final development of crofelemer, a drug …

Working for past 10 years in arts, environment, climate change, biocultural diversity, indigenous rights, rainforest conservation. …

Carlos received a BSc degree in Psychology at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México in 2001 and a MSc in Environmental Anthropology at the University of Kent in Canterbury in 2003. His dissertation and field research evaluated the impact of indigenous organizations on …

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. I am working on ethnicity, local food systems, and sustainable agriculture in California’s Central Valley. Bridging my work with Mien farmers in the …

I am a mother of two adult daughters and live in Auckland, New Zealand. I work in the area of immigrant resettlement and am increasingly aware of the wide gap that exists between people in pluralistic societies and believe that social integration can only happen with increased…

Dr. Rajindra K. Puri is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology and Managing Director of the Centre for Biocultural Diversity at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is also a scientific advisor to the Global Diversity Foundation. [http://www.kent.ac.uk/…

I am an environmental justice activist, acequia farmer, author, teacher, and philanthropist. My current academic appointment is Professor of Anthropology and American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington where I am affiliated with an interdisciplinary Graduate Program…

I’m an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas. Since late 2007, I’ve been contracted by Cherokee Nation to head an applied ethnobotanical restoration program with Western Cherokee school districts across rural Northeast Oklahoma. The program, called…

I am a researcher studying and teaching ethnobotany in a broad sense. My interests lie in medicinal plants, market ethnobotany, molecular barcoding, herbal pharmacovigilance, plant systematics, herbalists, community-based conservation, and biocultural diversity. I am based at …