Former Lead Strategist for Creative Collaboration, Agam Agenda
Padmapani L. Perez is a published poet and owner of the acclaimed bookstore Mt. Cloud Bookshop, located in Baguio City. She received her doctorate in anthropology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University, Netherlands and her Masters degree in Environmental Anthropology from the University of Kent at Canterbury. She was a researcher in anthropology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, specializing in policy-oriented research on the role of indigenous peoples in the conservation of biodiversity, particularly in Indonesia and the Philippines.
An anthropologist by training and a writer by heart, Padma’s poems and essays have been anthologized in various Philippine publications, including Agam: Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty and Climate Change (2014). She authored Green Entanglements: Nature Conservation and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Indonesia and the Philippines (2018, University of the Philippines Press), and Shelah Goes to a Da-ngah (2016, Alam-am Publishing), a children’s book. An advocate for food sovereignty, Padma serves on the boards of SeedChange (formerly USC Canada) and Global Seed Savers Philippines.