Dr. Lakshmi Charli-Joseph
Lakshmi has a B.Sc. in biology, two M.Sc. in environmental management, and a PhD in sustainability sciences. For the past twelve years, she has been involved in capacity-building projects related to wetland management & water governance. She is currently working at the National Laboratory for Sustainability Sciences on research projects promoting deeper types of changes toward sustainability in Mexico. Her work in transformations started when she was part of the project "Transformative pathways to sustainability: learning across disciplines, contexts and cultures" (PATHWAYS Network), where she co-coordinated the North America Hub.
Her current work is to:
1) Promote transformative pathways to sustainability through collective agency: The Transformation-Lab in the Xochimilco social-ecological system. Read their Latest article & a methodological guide
2) "Cultivating ways of knowing for transformations'' - A project coordinated by Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles (a recent NGO created to foster transformations to sustainability) with the support of the STEPS Centre. Please take a look at this new NGO and reach out if interested!
Lakshmi’s Call to Action for the Transformations Community:
Lakshmi is offering a Postdoc opportunity: Are you interested in designing and implementing processes that promote sustainable transformations?
Check this Postdoc call (only for Spanish speakers) to work with us in an urban wetland of Mexico City, under the project Trans-Path-Plan.
In what ways can we strengthen a pracademic community to engage more meaningfully in transdisciplinary processes that focus on relational and caring approaches, while resisting the logic of fast publishing, short-term tangible outcomes, and extractive practices that seem contradictory to the very essence of these endeavors?
