RENOVANT® 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.
PhD. Angelica Medina Garcia.
PhD.. in Sociocultural studies | Indigenous researcher | Feminist Theorist
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
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.
