I joined the executive of AILASA in 2020 as treasurer. I am an anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. My research on the social and environmental effects of the extraction industries (copper and lithium mining) and Indigenous Peoples' engagement with the industry over water extraction in Chile has been published in a range of international journals in anthropology and the humanities (see below). I'm active among networks of Latin American scholars in the discipline of anthropology and beyond and regularly reviews for Chilean anthropology journals. I supervise a number of current HDR students from Latin America or working in the broad area of Latin American Studies I've been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Intercultural and Indigenous Research, at the Pontífica Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago) and at the Universidad Catolica del Norte.