Constanza Monterrubio Solís

Being a food lover and specialized in biodiversity conservation, Constanza focuses on seeds and food as the expression of bicultural heritage exploring how local foodways thrive in these turbulent times. Currently, Constanza is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pontific University of Chile looking at the ways small-scale farmers, especially women, keep resilience of the food heritage through biocultural memory in the La Araucania region of Chile. Conversations by the fire, walks through the forests collecting edibles, cultivating home gardens, sharing seeds, cooking and eating are the means through which she learns from the keepers of biocultural memory and share their struggle to keep it alive and vibrant.