Strategic Collaborations

RENOVANT® is honored to collaborate with Dr. Angélica Medina García, an Indigenous researcher whose doctoral work on Tsotsil women’s experiences embodies intellectual excellence, cultural depth, and decolonial integrity.

The firm’s collaboration with Dr. Medina García takes a specific and intentional form: RENOVANT® is undertaking a careful, contextualized translation of her PhD thesis from Mexican Spanish into American English — work that requires not only linguistic fluency but ethical responsibility toward the knowledge it carries. Her research also serves as a guiding scholarly reference that informs how RENOVANT® thinks about land, community, and the built environment.

This is not a co-branding arrangement. It is an intellectual engagement built on respect — for the depth of Dr. Medina García’s scholarship, for the Tsotsil women whose experiences her research centers, and for the responsibility that comes with bringing that knowledge into professional practice.

Dr. Medina García represents the beginning of what RENOVANT® intends to be an ongoing and growing engagement with Indigenous researchers whose work helps shape a more honest, grounded, and responsible approach to residential development.

RENOVANT® x Indigenous Research

Dr. Angelica Medina Garcia

With a Doctorate in Sociocultural studies and lifelong commitment to body-territory defense and epistemic justice, Dr. Medina’s ethnographic research on Tsotsil women offers critical insight into how indigenous knowledge systems can shape place-based, culturally coherent residential design and community resilience.

Her research challenges dominant Western epistemologies by treating Indigenous knowledge not as cultural data, but as authoritative intelligence grounded in lived experience, memory, and place.

Contact: medina.angelica@uabc.edu.mx

Doctor in Sociocultural studies | Indigenous researcher | Feminist Theorist

Dr. Angelica Medina Garcia is a psychologist and scholar with a master’s and PhD. in sociocultural studies, widely recognized for her incisive intersectional lens and deep commitment to social and epistemic justice. She earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC), and completed advanced research residencies at the Institute of Advanced Social Studies (IDAES) at the national university of san martin in buenos aires, Argentina, and at the center for higher studies of Mexico and Central America (CESMECA) at the University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas.

Her academic foundation has been shaped by active involvement in diverse collectives and grassroots organizations focused on human rights, territorial defense, artistic expression, and political participation. She has also worked across public institutions and civil society organizations, consistently contributing critical insight and transformative vision.

Currently, Dr. Medina Garcia practices as a psychotherapist with a systemic and feminist approach, specializing in the care of individuals affected by social violence. She facilitates community-based workshops on sexuality, reproductive rights, self-care, body-politics-territory, and participatory methodologies.

As an independent researcher, her work focuses on structural racism and the evolving meanings of indigeneity along the northern border of Mexico, through the lived experiences of Tsotsil migrant families from Chiapas. Since 2020, she as been an active member of the network for the observation and accompaniment of migrant childhoods, bridging academic inquiry with grounded, ethical, and community-rooted praxis.

Remembering our roots
Our legacy isn’t a relic of the past, it’s the groundwork for what’s next.

Knowledge carried in migration
Across borders and generations, we haven’t just survived—we’ve reshaped systems, preserved memory, and forged new paths.

What some called displacement, we’ve always known as strategy.
What they mistook for silence, we understood as precision.
We’re not waiting to be included—we are leading.

Because real innovation begins where ancestral wisdom meets global vision.

Indigenous knowledge Meets Regenerative Residential Design

The introduction to Dr. Medina García’s thesis will be published on the RENOVANT® website as part of the firm’s Indigenous Research work.

This publication is not a summary or simplification. It is a carefully contextualized translation from Mexican Spanish into American English — one that honors Indigenous authority, relational knowledge, and the ethical responsibility that comes with bringing that work into a new language and professional context.

This is the beginning, not the conclusion, of an ongoing commitment to reshaping how residential construction engages with land, culture, and community intelligence.

Indigenous Data Governance

Honoring Indigenous authority.

RENOVANT® is an Indigenous-led practice. The regenerative frameworks the firm brings to residential construction are grounded in the founder’s own ancestral knowledge and lifelong relationship with land stewardship. That foundation is deepened — not sourced — by ongoing engagement with Indigenous scholarship.

RENOVANT® works with Indigenous researchers whose work embodies relational intelligence, cultural depth, and decolonial integrity. Dr. Angélica Medina García is the firm’s current research collaborator, and the first of what will be a growing network of Indigenous scholars informing this practice.

In all research engagements, RENOVANT® is guided by the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance — ensuring that Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics shape how knowledge is engaged, referenced, and applied:

Collective Benefit — knowledge serves the communities it comes from, not only the firm that references it

Authority to Control — Indigenous researchers and communities retain authority over their knowledge

Responsibility — the firm is accountable for how it engages with and applies that knowledge

Ethics — engagement is guided by relational accountability, not extraction

RENOVANT® does not extract Indigenous knowledge. It builds ethical architecture around it.

The goal is not representation. The goal is responsibility.

The regenerative frameworks developed by RENOVANT® are the original work of its founder and principal. They are grounded in her Indigenous heritage, professional expertise, and independent research practice. Scholarly references, research collaborations, and client engagements inform this work — they do not author it, co-own it, or hold rights to it.