“I weave and ignite new stories to reconnect food, nature, and humanity.”
Colombian-Spanish food and nature story-doer. She is a lawyer (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 2005) with two Masters in Sustainability (Brunel University London, 2016) and Food Writing (Basque Culinary Center, San Sebastian, 2024).
Highlights
She is the cofounder and director of Futuro Coca, a Colombian initiative dedicated to transforming global narratives around the cultivated coca tree (Erythroxylum coca and E. novogranatense), emphasising its cultural, ecological, scientific, gastronomic, and ancestral importance. The project hosts a yearly festival that fosters intercultural dialogue and collaboration across Indigenous communities, scientists, artists, chefs, journalists, policymakers, and entrepreneurs.
She is also the cofounder of Mucho Colombia, a gastronomic platform that works closely with indigenous, afrocolombian and campesino communities to showcase Colombia’s inmense and complex food pantry, unknown to many, bridging the urban-rural divide by facilitating the just commercial flow of these ingredients and the stories behind them and the people who farm and produce them.
To amplify the importance of developing new narratives, she wrote a guide around new ways of relating to food and nature (sponsored by CoFSA-UNDP) and created a workshop based on it, to encourage writing around these new dynamics (which she delivered in the 2025 Oxford Farming Conference and also offers online).