Marcos Colón
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Marcos Colón is a professor, journalist, poet, and documentary filmmaker. He is a professor of media and Indigenous communities at the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He specializes in Brazilian literary and cultural studies, with a focus on representations of the Amazon and the environment in 20th- and 21st-century Brazilian literature and cinema.
His journalistic work has been published in prominent media outlets such as Público, Folha de S.Paulo, Mediapart, Latin America Bureau, and El País. He has produced and directed two documentaries that explore humanity's complex relationships with the natural world: Beyond Fordlândia (2018) and Pisar Suavemente en la Tierra (2022).
He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Amazônia Latitude, a publishing house and digital environmental magazine, and is also the author of The Amazon in Times of War (2024) and Utopias Amazônicas (2025).
