Edauri Navarro Pérez

Edauri Navarro Pérez is a Boricua ecologist whose work bridges environmental science, community engagement, and relational approaches to knowledge. She earned her PhD in Environmental Life Sciences from Arizona State University, where her research focused on root functional traits, examining how plants respond to restoration treatments. Her work on roots, decomposition, and photogrammetry informs a broader interest in restoration as both an ecological and relational process.

Guided by cultural sustaining practices, she approaches science as a relational practice grounded in collaboration, reciprocity, and care. She engages in interdisciplinary and community-based work exploring how relationality is expressed in ecological knowledge. Her research examines how people’s stories about water can inform foundational frameworks in environmental studies and conservation, and how relationality shapes conservation outcomes. Her work focuses not only on restoring ecosystems, but also on sustaining the relationships that support them.