Susan Paulson has spent decades exploring processes through which gender, ethnoracial and socioeconomic systems interact with environment in diverse Latin American contexts. After living and teaching in South America for 15 years and in Europe for 5 years, Paulson now serves as professor and Academic Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Recent work includes writing Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America’s Uneven Development (Routledge 2015), introducing and editing a 15-article special issue on Degrowth, Culture and Power in the Journal of Political Ecology (2017), and hosting an international conference on Buen Vivir and Other Postdevelopment Pathways (2018).