Ximena Cuadra Montoya holds a PhD in political science from the Université du Québec in Montreal. She is currently an academic at the School of Sociology of the Universidad de Maule, Chile and a member of the Action Network for Environmental Rights, RADA. She is interested in the social, environmental, and political dimension of energy and works in Mapuche territory with various organizations, communities, and lof (Mapuche communities).