© Marisol RamírezYayo Herrero
Invitado de Honor
(1965) Herrero has a PhD in Social and Political Science, a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and a degree in Social Education and Agricultural Technical Engineering. She is a member-worker at Garúa Sociedad Cooperativa, as well as a consultant, researcher, teacher and writer in the fields of political ecology, eco-feminism, eco-social transitions and education for the sustainability of life. For decades, she has been combining her work with active participation in social movements, especially the environmental movement.
Her latest publications are Toma de Tierra (2023, Caniche), Ecofeminismos. La sostenibilidad de la vida (Icaria, 2023), Educar para la sostenibilidad de la vida. Una mirada ecofeminista a la educación (2022, Octaedro), Derechos Humanos (2022, Litera), Ausencias y extravíos (2021, Ediciones Contextatarias y Libros en Acción) and Ecofeminismos para tiempos de crisis (2020, Pabellón 6).
She has coordinated and written in works such as Tiempo para la vida (Charo Morán, Helena Pariente and Yayo Herrero; 2022, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona), Cambio climático (Yayo Herrero, María González Reyes and Berta Páramo; 2019, Ediciones Litera), La vida en el centro. Voces y relatos ecofeministas (Yayo Herrero, María González, Marta Pascual, illustrated by Emma Gascó; 2018, Libros en Acción), La gran encrucijada. Sobre la crisis ecosocial y el cambio de ciclo histórico (Fernando Prats, Yayo Herrero, Alicia Torrego; 2016, Libros en Acción), Cambiar las gafas de ver el mundo. Una nueva cultura de sostenibilidad (Yayo Herrero, Fernando Cembranos and Marta Pascual (coords.); 2011, Libros en Acción), Educación y Ecología. El currículum oculto antiecológico de los libros de texto (Fernando Cembranos, Yayo Herrero y Marta Pascual (coords.); 2007, Editorial Popular).
She has published dozens of articles in anthologies. Part of her work has been translated into Catalan, Basque, Italian, French, English, German and Korean.
Other activities involving the participant:
Worldly ailments of the Earth