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Thea Riofrancos

Thea Riofrancos is associate professor of political science at Providence College, a strategic co-director of the Climate and Community Institute, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. She is the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (2020).