María Alvarez Malvido (she/her) has a background in social anthropology, communications, and journalism. Her work is rooted in her commitment to diversity in its many forms and her love for storytelling. She has worked with Indigenous Peoples in Mexico and Latin America to design and implement strategies to access, share, and preserve local knowledge using media and digital tools in self-determined ways. Before joining Awana Digital, she worked in Redes A.C accompanying Indigenous community radios and mesh networks in Mexico, and later as train-the-trainer coordinator in Colmena, with DW Akademie, a co-designed open-source newsroom for community media.
As a writer, she has published on platforms like Revista Nexos, Este País, and MIT Blog. She was the project writer for the participatory research project “Indigenous and minority language community needs for secure technologies” with Rising Voices. Her work areas at Awana Digital are product support, communications, and accompaniment to one of our local partners in East Africa who are using Mapeo to protect their territories. María is from Mexico and is currently based in the UK. She is queer, enjoys time with her family and her favorite animal is the whale.
