Fernanda Yanchapaxi

M. Fernanda Yanchapaxi (she/her) is a Research Fellow at the Technoscience Research Unit in the Indigenous Science, Technology, and Environment Studies (ISTES) Hub. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Social Justice Education Program, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), at the University of Toronto. Fernanda’s research work focuses on the areas and intersections of intellectual property, Indigenous data sovereignty, and Indigenous research methodologies. She is interested in the ways in which Indigenous peoples form, access, use, and protect data and Indigenous knowledge and examines and highlights how Indigenous researchers do so through their research practices and the ways in which they enact principles of Indigenous data sovereignty and data governance. She is Kichwa-Panzaleo/Mestiza, born and raised in Ecuador.

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