Elda Miriam Aldasoro Maya

Elda Miriam Aldasoro Maya is a Mexican biologist, anthropologist and popularizer. She is a pioneer in the study of ethnoentomology in Mexico and of interdisciplinary research that uses theoretical approaches from biology and anthropology to study ethnobiology from a political, economic, social and cultural perspective. Her work has contributed to the documentation of indigenous knowledge, the promotion of activities around community development, the implementation and design of participatory methodologies, as well as biocultural education activities.

She has taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University of Washington, University of the Valley of Mexico, and at the Intercultural Universities of the State of Mexico. She has also been a collaborator of the CONACyT Network of Ethnoecology and Cultural Heritage, and a consultant in the field of microfinance for work with indigenous peoples.

She is currently a CONACYT chair at the Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in Villahermosa and a member of the national system of researchers of CONACYT Mexico. Provided by Wikipedia