Engaged scholar, educator, and apprentice organizer, from the islands of Puerto Rico. He has transdisciplinary social-environmental sciences training, combining political ecology and environmental policy and planning, with decolonial and Latin American and Caribbean studies. His work centers on transformative eco-social initiatives and movements, connecting to ideas of the commons, autogestion, insurgent ecologies, environmental/climate justice, and just transitions. He has action-research experience in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and most recently in Portugal, and he also has ample engagement with international initiatives. He is currently FCT-CEECIND Assistant Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. He also held the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (2019-2021, ext. 2022); was Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Planning at the University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras (2015-2019); and Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (Postdoc) in the H2020 ITN European Network of Political Ecology - ENTITLE (2014-2015). He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Political Science from Indiana University (2012), a Masters in Environmental Policy from Cambridge University (2005), and a Bachelor in Environmental Sciences and Geography from the University of Puerto Rico (2004). He is co-founding member of Post-Extractive Futures (a self-organized initiative from various collectives to foster thinking and action for post-extractive societies); the Climate Justice Network (integrating scholars and practitioners on research and education); JunteGente (a space of encounters of grassroots initiatives for eco-social justice in Puerto Rico); and the Undisciplined Environments political ecology blog editorial collective.