Belén graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires with a degree in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and she is a PhD candidate.
She has previously worked in various socio-cultural fields: intercultural education and childhood and rural issues. Nowadays, she is working on migrations movements and health impacts.
As regards to Climate Change, she is interested on the local community's knowledge about how the climate change and the socio-economic activities are producing dramatic effects on the ecological resources; and which are the different meanings that local communities assign to their behaviours and activities that have a daily/constant impact on the environmental context.