Lígia Duque Platero is the Education Program associate at the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She is a queer Brazilian woman based in Rio de Janeiro and the mother of a young child. She holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology (2018) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in anthropology (2021) at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), through the Center for Research on Psychoactive Substances and Culture (PSICUCULT). She earned a master’s in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in Mexico City (2012). She also earned a bachelor’s in history (2005) and a teaching credential in history (2006) from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She is the author of Virando indígenas, virando Yawanawás [Becoming Indigenous, Becoming Yawanawá] (Mercado de Letras/Chacruna Institute, in press). She is also research associate at the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP). Her research and publications address ayahuasca networks in forest and urban contexts, Amazonian “forest medicines,” cultural transformations, ritual, Santo Daime, the Yawanawá (Pano) people, intersectionality, queer issues, and Indigenous rights.