Karina is a junior academic from Panama focused on climate resilience and sustainability.
Served as a Research assistant and Lecturer at the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP). Her experience was developed in regional climate and catastrophe models applications, water security, and disaster risk assessment in coastal communities in her home country and across Latin America.
She has also supported science socialisation by organising international conferences and activities in her home country and with international partners.
More recently, she integrated the national delegation of Panama for the UNFCCC COP29 and COP30, supporting climate negotiations on Adaptation, Loss and Damage and Technology Transfer.
UNU Resource Nexus Focus Areas
- Transformed Landscapes
Research Interests
- Climate Change Adaptation & Social Resilience
- Community sustainable development
- Transformative learning for sustainability
- Global environmental governance
Appointments
- National Youth Delegate at COP29 Baku. Operation COP Latin America 2024-Ministry of Environment of Panama
- Local point, SRI CONGRES Engangement Team. Future Earth & Belmont Forum. 2023-2024
- Doctoral Researcher, UNU-Nexus & TUD