Project Title: Finding Decolonial Cracks in Planning and Policy
Joaquín Lopez-Huertas, University of Utah
Joaquín Lopez-Huertas (Am’aj Q’in) is a Mayan K’iche’ scholar from Xelajuj No’j located in the place known as Guatemala. He is a Ph.D. candidate in city & metropolitan planning at the University of Utah. With more than ten years of working with Indigenous communities in regions of Guatemala, Chile, and the US, Joaquin’s research focuses on Indigenous planning and the intersections with climate change, urban design, and land use policy through decolonial practices. Particularly, Joaquin delves into the ways Indigenous peoples restore relationships with place, foster community organizing, respond to environmental injustices and reimagine Indigenous cities. Joaquin received the Fulbright LASPAU scholarship and the GCSC fellowship for his doctoral studies. Before coming to Utah, Joaquin was a lecturer at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and an OAS fellow at the Universidad de Valparaíso in Chile.
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