María-Fernanda González

María-Fernanda González is  lecturer and a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses on environmental philosophy and ethics. She was previously a graduate student instructor at UC Berkeley. In Colombia, she worked as a project researcher specialist at Instituto SINCHI and the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, where she conducted interdisciplinary research and contributed to conservation strategy design. She also worked as a graduate researcher for Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. González earned a BS in biology and an MS in conservation biology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and an MA in landscape architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.

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