María Fernanda Rocha Pisso, Angie Vanessa Rodríguez Navia, and Luis Miguel Sevilla España are fellows of the call for “High-Level Human Capital Formation to Promote Community Social Leadership and Address the 4IR in the Cauca Department.”

For their work on territorial demands regarding diversity and economic subjectivities in the post-pandemic era, and the appreciation of biocultural heritage in rural communities of southwestern Colombia, María Fernanda Rocha Pisso, Angie Vanessa Rodríguez Navia, and Luis Miguel Sevilla España, students of the Master's in Interdisciplinary Development Studies, are fellows of the call for “High-Level Human Capital Formation to Promote Community Social Leadership and Address the 4IR in the Cauca Department.”

The institutional project of the University of Cauca is carried out within the framework of the “CTeI Allocation Call of the SGR for the formation of a list for high-level human capital formation and insertion in the regions, biennium 2021-2022,” from the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, and the General System of Royalties (SGR). One of its specific objectives is to form a list of eligible project proposals for the training of human capital at the master's level in research mode for regional development.

In this context, each of the three graduate fellows presents their academic life stories as follows:

Angie Vanessa Rodríguez Navia holds a degree in Basic Education with an emphasis on Spanish and English from the University of Cauca. She has previous experience as a writer of environmental education curricula, with a pedagogical approach for different school levels, based on the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN.

María Fernanda Rocha Pisso is a Geographer, awarded the University of Cauca Medal in its Guillermo Valencia designation for academic excellence, according to Resolution No. 087 of 2022. She has experience with Geographic Information Systems through software like ArcGIS and QGIS, as well as the development of participatory community cartographies from rural geography and local development processes. She is a current researcher in the Antropos research group at the University of Cauca and an entrepreneur from Cauca, owning the Poesis brand from leaf to drop.

Luis Miguel Sevilla España is a Financial Administrator from the University of Tolima in partnership with the University of Cauca and holds a Specialization in Government and Public Policies from the University of Cauca. He is a member of GNOSIS OS, a corporation that brings together professionals, university students, and social actors to promote positive socio-natural transformations through the construction and dissemination of knowledge on sustainability and sustainable organizations. His research initiative involves analyzing cooperativism in northern Cauca in the post-pandemic era.

Institutional projects like this aim to address the territorial demands defined by the Cauca Department, especially at the master's level, focusing on human capital competencies that promote community social leadership. This includes the three fellows of the Master's in Interdisciplinary Development Studies, a postgraduate program in the Faculty of Accounting, Economics, and Administrative Sciences.

Written by: Center for Communications Management