Hi! My name is Lucía, I’m a Ph.D. student in Information and Media at Michigan State University. Originally from Uruguay and previously based in Grenoble, France, my background includes working as a science and technology journalist for El Observador (2014-2017), during which I had the amazing opportunity to report from the Uruguayan Scientific Antarctic Base.

My research interests center on environmental communication frameworks through a decolonial lens, with a focus on Latin America, as well as the cryosphere across polar and high-altitude mountain territories. I am particularly interested in how Indigenous relational frameworks and multispecies kinship perspectives challenge dominant environmental narratives.