Yeyetsi Maldonado Caballero

Yeyetsi Maldonado (M.D.P, B.S) is a Sustainability Data Researcher at HowGood, where she researches location-specific crops and conducts data content audits. Of note, she supports our metrics team in researching human rights issues and labor rights in different locations around the world. In turn, Yeyetsi’s work provides HowGood customers with location-specific Labor Risk assessments and supports them in reducing or eliminating high-risk ingredients from their supply chain.Yeyetsi brings unique knowledge of agroforestry, non-timber forest products, biodiversity and ecology from her research experience in fungal ecology and taxonomy. She is interested in food systems and understanding how the relationship between people and agroforestry influences how communities engage with maintaining biodiversity, food security, and preserving traditional ecological knowledge. She holds a Master of Sustainable Development Practice from University of Florida and a Bachelor of Biology from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo.