Taína Diaz-Reyes

Taína is an activist scholar working as a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory and PhD student in the School of Sustainability. She works with Dr. Melissa Nelson as a graduate research associate developing the Indigenous Knowledges focal area within the Global Futures Lab.

Her research interests include: global indigeneity, cosmogeneology, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), Indigenous geographies, food and seed sovereignty, arid desert ecologies, borderlands and debordering, seed and land rematriation, Indigenous Latin America, ecological spirituality, ethnoecology, ancestral trade networks, food mobility, identity formation, ecogastronomy, food geopolitics, governance and transterritoriality, bio/geocultural engagement, Indigenous archaeology, agroecology, meaning making, indigeneity, geographical-historical landscape analysis, collaborative environmental management practices, climate change, and Indigenous futurism.

Her positionality in research and writing are based in her experience as an Indigenous Latina existing in a borderland identity. She orients her work towards Latin American and American Indian liberation by centering community knowledge and connection to place.