Dr. Grandia is Associate Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California Davis. For more than 30 years, Dr. Grandia has been living in partnership and solidarity with indigenous communities in Honduras, Belize and Guatemala. Her work with communities has helped them to stop destructive infrastructure and development bank loans, but also leveraged her land research to help Indigenous communities develop practical strategies to defend land and territory. Dr. Grandia uses multiple modalities (films, comic books, even radio soap operas) in multiple languages to disseminate her research and ensure it is accessible so that it can be useful to local communities. Dr. Grandia also helped establish and supports an accredited Q’eqchi’ agroecology high school in northern Guatemala. As an advocate for “slow” and reciprocal ethnography with her grassroots collaborators, she aims to open pathways for lasting policy changes in service of social and environmental justice.