Mariana Fajardo-Arboleda
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Pronouns: She/Her
Mariana is a PhD candidate at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES). Her research focuses on the relationship between risk perceptions, vulnerable communities, and migration decisions. She examines how communities face environmental shocks and what adaptation strategies they use, especially in South America.
Before joining IoES, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), a master’s degree in Urban Planning with an environmental emphasis from EAFIT University (Colombia), and an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University in New York. She has worked on several urban, environmental, and social policy projects with an interdisciplinary approach. She also has experience in projects on deforestation in Latin America.
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