The University of Arizona Press

Julie Velásquez Runk is director, professor, and Weigl Fellow in Environment and Sustainability Studies at Wake Forest University and a research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Trained as an ecologist and an anthropologist and taught by Indigenous Wounaan, she has fostered socioecological research through community-based knowledge co-production for more than thirty years. She mixes social sciences, natural sciences, and the humanities, and authors and co-authors work for academic and nonacademic publics.