Carolina Osorio Gil is a Ph.D. candidate in Development Sociology in the Department of Global Development. In her current research, she is developing a Freirian story-based interdisciplinary theater methodology for capacity building and healing work with campesina/o (rural) communities affected by large-scale hydroelectric dam projects in Colombia and Mexico. Before returning to academia, she was a community organizer, artist, and educator with Latinx communities in Ithaca.