Lorena Rodriguez Lezica

Lorena is a feminist and ecological activist, living and working in Uruguay as a professor at Universidad de la República (University of the Republic). As a researcher, she takes a critical approach and is involved in collaborative research processes, mainly with collectives, organizations, and individuals engaged in struggles across rural territories where the fabric of life is threatened by agribusiness. She is part of the Latin American collective Miradas Críticas del Territorio desde el Feminismo (Critical Perspectives on Territory from Feminism).

Miradas Críticas del Territorio desde el Feminismo is made up of ten women from Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. It was founded in Ecuador in 2012, and since then, these women have been driven to reflect on and advocate for a dignified life in common—both their own and that of free and autonomous body-territories. Since creating the body-territory mapping methodology in 2013, they have built bridges between feminisms, popular ecologies, and the lived experiences of people in territories affected by extractivism. For over ten years, they have shared the body-territory mapping methodology across different parts of Abya Yala, fostering caring spaces in which to express the violence embodied in body-territories while also recognizing strategies of resistance.

As a research fellow, Lorena carries out this project as part of Miradas Críticas del Territorio desde el Feminismo and as part of a collective of compañeras (comrades) in Uruguay: Gabriela Veras Iglesias, Alicia Migliaro González, and Nat Tommasino Comesaña.