About Speaker

Prof Frédérique Apffel-Marglin es Profesora Emérita del Departamento de Antropología en Smith College. Fundó el Centro Sachamama para la Regeneración Biocultural en la alta amazonía Peruana en 2009, donde trabaja con comunidades indígenas, así como con varias escuelas secundarias de la provincia, regenerando el suelo antropogénico precolombino más sostenible y eficaz para la reducción del cambio climático, conocido como Terra Preta do Indio (tierra negra de los indígenas).

Prof Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology at Smith College. She founded the Sachamama Centre for Biocultural Regeneration in the Peruvian High Amazon in 2009 where she works with indigenous communities as well as several High Schools in the province, regenerating the most sustainable and climate reducing pre-Columbian anthropogenic soil known as Terra Preta do Indio (black earth of the Indians). Her more recent books are: Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World (2011); Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth with Robert Tindall and David Shearer, (2017); Contemporary Voices from Anima Mundi edited with Stefano Varese, (2020). Her latest book is written with Randy Chung Gonzales who has worked in SCBR for decades: Initiated by the Spirits: Healing Ills of Modernity through Shamanism, Psychedelics and the Power of the Sacred (2022).