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Crisol and her daughter Luisa are from Guerrero and recently joined the team at the Kino Bay Center. Crisol is an Environmental Sociologist focusing on political ecology and institutional analysis with 15 years of experience working at the intersection of ecology, sociology, resource management, and politics to solve real-world natural resource management problems. Crisol is serving as an Assistant Director of Conservation Programs.

Crisol holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Sustainable Development from ECOSUR and an M.Sc. in Natural Resources and Rural Development from ECOSUR, both in Mexico. Before coming to Kino, Crisol worked as a professor at the University of Guadalajara for the past 16 years and at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur for the past two years. She also served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Coastal and Commons Co-laboratory at Duke University, co-leading an innovative, collaborative research project on the functionality and strengthening of fishing organizations in Mexico, and El Colegio de Michoacán co-leading a participatory project to promote coral reefs conservation. Her academic work analyzes the conditions in which collective action and the role of the State occur through the analysis of public policies that govern resources and the processes of appropriation of these regulations by local communities (fishing and peasants). She includes studies on female empowerment and male labor migration. She has specialized in designing and implementing participatory methodologies, which contemplate partnerships between scientists, communities, and non-governmental organizations. She has also served as a consultant for the Regional Fisheries Office of the Latin American and Caribbean Region of FAO. She has won distinctions as a Fulbright Scholar and member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in Mexico.