MARIO JOAQUIN LOPEZHUERTAS portrait
  • Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), City & Metropolitan Planning

Education

  • B.S. Architecture, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Project: Ibankinnal. Educational Center
  • M.Sc. Regional and Environmental Planning, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de Valparaíso - Chile. Project: The loss of the Cultural-Natural Symbiotic Relationship between the Mapuche and the Arauco Landscape
  • Ph.D. Candidate, City & Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah. Project: Decolonial Cracks in Planning: Between Navajo and Ixil Re-existences

Biography

Joaquín Lopez-Huertas is an Indigenous planner with K’iche’ Mayan ancestry from land known as Guatemala. He is a Ph.D. candidate in City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. With more than 10 years working with Indigenous communities in Guatemala, Chile and the US, his research focuses on understanding the ways Indigenous Peoples dismantle, reframe, reinvent and reimagine the colonial entanglements in planning.