Ángela Castillo Ardila (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department at UC Berkeley and a Fulbright Fellow. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MSc in Geography. Ángela studies practices of territorial, water, and life defense in Colombia in the context of contemporary extractive disputes, focusing on emergetwnt political subjects, novel forms of political action, and the production of territory, nature, democracy, and law.