Iokiñe Rodríguez is an Associate Researcher from the School of International Development (DEV) at UEA. She trained as a sociologist in Venezuela, and uses local environmental knowledge and participatory action-research to help resolve environmental conflicts and achieve environmental justice in Latin America. As part of DEVs Global Environmental Justice Group, her work on environmental conflict transformation focuses on issues of local history, local knowledge, power, environmental justice, equity and intercultural dialogue. This has led to her building local and institutional capacity to transform environmental conflicts in Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Colombia.