2020-11 - Pluriepistemic Research Partnership for Crafting the Educational Project of the Inga Biocultural Indigenous University in Colombia.

2019-06 to 2021-03 - Ictiología y Cultura. P.I. Interdisciplinary research project in biology and anthropology.

2018-05-01 to 2019-05-01 - Principal Investigator. Food Sovereignty and Communities' Valuations of the Commons. VRI - Laudato Si' Grant # PPTA-7291

2018-01 to 2019-07 - Cultivando la ciencia del árbol la salud: educación para la salud y la prevención tradicional. With Muinane indigenous researcher Célimo Nejedeka Jifichíu. Programa Amazónico, PUJ. https://repository.javeriana.edu.co/handle/10554/47281

2015-03 to 2015-06 - Visiting Scholar, Center for Amerindian, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies University of Saint Andrews, Scotland

2010-01 to 2010-12 - Consultant in the indigenous project "Consolidación de la propuesta de gestión socio-ambiental de la Asociación de Autoridades Tradicionales Indígenas del Resguardo Tikuna-Uitoto Km. 6 y 11 - Cuenca alta del río Tacana (Leticia, Amazonas)". PPD-ICAA (Inciativa para la Corservación de la Amazonia Andina), USAID. Design, co-direction and anthropological consultancy. Renewed in 2011.

2009-01 to 2009-12 - Project: "Fortalecimiento del Consejo de Autoridades Tradicionales Indígenas del Resguardo Tikuna Uitoto Km. 6 y 11 para la construcción participativa de estrategias de gestión territorial y para su difusión (Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia)". PPD-ICAA (Inciativa para la Corservación de la Amazonia Andina), USAID. Design, co-direction and anthropological consultancy.

2008-03 to 2011-04 - Fairtrade certification auditor. Small-Producers and Hired Labor standards. FLO-CERT Gmbh, Bonn, Germany.

2008-03 to 2008-06 - Evaluation of the ADAM and MIDAS programs of alternative development. USAID Colombia.

2007 - Co-founder and advisor of the Fundación Eutopia, a Colombian NGO that works at the intersection of social, environmental and economic issues.

2005-08 to 2005-12 - Participatory determination of the eco-tourism carrying capacity in Amacayacu National Park, LAC methodology (Limit of Acceptable Changes). Amazonas, Colombia.

1999-08 to 1999-12 - With Colombian NGO Fundación Gaia Amazonas. Coordination of the Workshops of Social Cartography in five communities of the indigenous reservation Tikuna-Uitoto, Km.6 y 11, Leticia, Colombia.

1999-04 to 2000-04 - Consultant of the Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia (ONIC), and Indigenous Reservation Ticuna Cocama Yagua of Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia to design the Plan of Territorial Ordering (POT) and Plan of Life (indigenous alternative to Institutional Development Plan) of the Reservation.

1998-09 to 2000-05 - Consultant of the Indigenous organization ACITU (Asociación Cabildos Indígenas Tikuna Uitoto), Amazonas, Colombia to devise the Plan of Territorial Ordering (POT) of the indigenous reservation Tikuna-Uitoto Km. 6-11. Facilitated Participatory Action Research in the communities.

1996-05 to 1006-06 - National Park Amacayacu. Amazonas, Colombia. Devised joint strategies with indigenous communities living in the Park to improve their accountability with regard to the Park's policies.

Other Activities

2006-02 - Invited guest to the Workshop "Construction of the Amazonian Research Agenda". Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Leticia.

1998 - Cofounder and member of the Selvalegre Educational Project located in Leticia, Colombian Amazon. From Jan. to May 2007 coordination of the creative pedagogy team Grupo A.J.Í. (Arte-Juego-Investigación) with funding by the Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez (FPAA), Colombia.

1993-05 to 1993-08 - Editorial assistant in the editor's office of the American Anthropologist, Journal of the American Anthropological Association.