Marcos Colón is the Southwest Borderlands Initiative Assistant Professor of Media and Indigenous Communities at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the director of Beyond Fordlândia (2018) and Stepping Softly on the Earth (2022) and the author of The Amazon in Times of War (Practical Action Publishing & Latin America Bureau, 2024, published in Spanish as La Amazonía en tiempos de guerra, Planeta, 2025) and organizer of Utopias Amazônicas (Ateliê, 2025).