Ivet Reyes Maturano grew up in Mexico City. She graduated as an anthropologist from the National School for Anthropology and History of Mexico and received her MA in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at McGill University and a member of the grassroots organization Articulación Yucatán (https://articulacionyucatan.wordpress.com/). She has also collaborated in art projects tackling social questions in the Netherlands, the US and Mexico. Her work addresses collective memory, political ecology, rural change, and environmental justice.