Dulcinea Lezcano

Dulcinea Lezcano is driven by a belief that building a more just society is possible through deeper connection with the land. She brings this conviction into both academic and grassroots work focused on environmental education, territorial defense, and the conservation of native grasslands in Corrientes, Argentina.

She teaches Biology at the secondary and university levels, including in the Chair of Learning Biology at the Faculty of Humanities, National Northeast University (UNNE). She is currently completing a degree in Biological Sciences at UNNE’s Faculty of Exact Sciences (FaCENA), and is also studying British English and Portuguese. In 2017–2018, she was awarded an undergraduate research grant by UNNE’s General Secretariat for Science and Technology.

In 2019, Dulcinea joined the socio-environmental organization Defensores del Pastizal, in response to the spread of industrial forestry into native ecosystems. Since then, she has helped lead outreach efforts rooted in scientific knowledge—organizing workshops, school visits, cultural center events, reading circles, and educational spaces across the region. That same year, she conducted oral history interviews with residents of Paraje Montaña (San Miguel, Corrientes) and produced a series of short audiovisual documentaries that amplify community voices and place-based memory.

She describes herself as a woman with academic training rooted in the study of nature, and as someone committed to learning with and from the territory she calls home.