Dr. Guadalupe Ortiz Hernández is a popular educator, social psychologist, and holds a Master’s degree in Rural Development from the Xochimilco Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. She earned her Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Ph.D. Program in Social Sciences at the Xochimilco Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

She is currently a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus. She teaches in the B.A. Program in Social Psychology at the Iztapalapa Campus and in the M.A. Program in Social Psychology of Groups and Institutions at the Xochimilco Campus. She is a Candidate in Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SECIHTI).

She has taught at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM, at the Benito Juárez García Universities for Wellbeing (Iztapalapa Campus), and served as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Economics at UNAM. Her teaching has focused on environmental issues, traditional water management, political ecology, research methodology, bioculturality, and the water and environmental crisis.

In the field of educational leadership, she served as Director of the Technological High School for Education and Sports Promotion, Mexico City campus, where she worked with adolescents, families, and faculty in comprehensive educational processes.

She has collaborated as a research assistant at CIESAS (Pacific South Regional Unit), conducting fieldwork for a study on healthcare attention during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum in the state of Oaxaca. At the Institute for Social Research at UNAM, she carried out desk research on civil society organizations and governance. She also worked as an individual consultant for UNESCO Mexico, where she developed a virtual school aimed at strengthening community radio stations nationwide.

Dr. Ortiz Hernández has extensive experience in civil society organizations. She has worked with Servicio Desarrollo y Paz A.C., strengthening organizational processes in Mexico City and the Huasteca Potosina; with the Centro Operacional de Vivienda y Poblamiento A.C., initiating participatory housing construction training processes in the Sierra Norte of Puebla; and with The Hunger Project Mexico, collaborating in local governance training processes in the Mazateca region of Oaxaca and the Huasteca Potosina. In this context, she contributed to the development of a manual on pollinators and agroecology, as well as a guide for building citizen agendas.

Within government institutions, she served as a workshop facilitator in the Gender, Health, and Citizenship Training Program at the DIF of Mexico City.

Her research projects address topics such as resistance in Indigenous communities in the Sierra Norte of Puebla; peasant and Indigenous agriculture and its cultural dimensions; working rural children; murdered environmental activists in Mexico; community washhouses in Mexico City; and gender, labor, and violence within the university setting.


She has specialized in Childhood and Sustainable Development (Xochimilco Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), Agroecology (University of Antioquia, Colombia), and Psychotherapy with a Gender Perspective (Autonomous University of Chiapas).