Javiera Barandiaran is Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of UCSB’s CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work. She has published four books, including Science and Environment in Chile (MIT Press) and Demanding a Radical Constitution (Palgrave Macmillan). For her research on lithium mining, she won NSF research funding, a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and a fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.