Marina Ruiz

Sylvia Marina Ruiz was born in Mendoza, Argentina. She earned a Sociology degree from the National University of Cuyo. In 2024, she moved to New Orleans to pursue her M.A. in Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Her M.A. thesis examines how international and national convergencies between the sustainable development paradigm and conservationism open political and economic opportunities for big international conservationist NGOs to land in Latin America and unfold a set of environmental tactics through which they gained institutional access and territorial power in the context of neoliberal restructuring. Currently, she is a PhD student in the same program and continues researching climate change, alternatives to development, and socio-environmental dynamics in Latin America.