Webinar: What Grows in the Margins: Plants, People, and the Politics of Care
Join us July 3 (10am PDT, 1pm EDT) for a free webinar featuring Dr. Guadalupe Maldonado Andrade,
Dr. Guadalupe Maldonado Andrade is a faculty member in the Plant Science Department and the Office of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly Pomona. Her teaching thoughtfully weaves together plant science and ethnic studies, highlighting the powerful role of plants in shaping stories of resilience, healing, and social mobility. Her research is grounded in community-based collaborations focused on abortion care, working alongside Mexico-based organizations and researchers such as Nacer y Renacer, Centro de Mujeres, and photographer Mahe Elipe.
In this talk, she will weave together her work as an ethnobotanist, abortion doula, and abortion haver to explore the intimate and political relationships between plants and reproductive care. Drawing from her research on plant-based abortions in Mexico and among migrant communities, she will invite you all to consider how marginalized knowledge systems are deeply embodied and resistant. Through personal narrative and interactive reflection, we will examine what it means to center care in scientific inquiry and academic practice.
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