Carla Asquel Carvajal

Carla Asquel Carvajal, “Yana,” is a South American migrant, social researcher, and artisan. Her work weaves together ethnography, narrative practices, affective and artistic methodologies from a transversal approach to diversities. Her actions focus on generating and strengthening processes that activate memory, listening, imagination, and the exchange of lived experiences in order to highlight potentials, inequalities, and socio-environmental interdependencies. The processes she engages in are closely linked to the awareness and care of the body-territory and to food sovereignty. She studied Social Anthropology (ENAH), holds a Master’s degree in Sustainability Sciences (UNAM), and has pursued specializations in gender, cultural management, narrative practices, and popular education.

In Cocina Colaboratorio, she contributes by creating spaces for reflection and exchange on the relevance and ambiguities of daily agro-food care work in the local production of the commons and in sustaining life. She also supports efforts to strengthen collaboration among members of the collective.