Support LiKEN's work on WCE, coding and analysis of the participatory data emerging from LiKEN's community listening, as well as assisting in the conceptualization and scholarly research entailed in all of LiKEN's work on deliverables. Maria Bareli is a social anthropologist, who has a passion for ecologies of local knowledge, community engaged research praxis and social justice. She grew up in Athens, Greece, where she studied Economics, before making the leap to cultural studies and social anthropology. Since 2005, Maria has resided in the Greek island of Ikaria, her mother’s island of origin, where she did fieldwork for her PhD. While working on her dissertation on the island’s community festivities (paniyiria), she came to realize the importance of natural, civic and cultural/ intergenerational knowledge commons for communities and convivial subjects. In 2008, when she found herself in the midst of a local struggle to stop the burning of garbage in one of the three municipal dumps of the island, she turned to action/community engaged research methodologies. Since then, she has participated in local struggles concerning environmental justice, water equity, and the right to public healthcare. In 2012, she co-founded the Documentation, Research and Action Centre of Ikaria (DRACoI), a nonprofit organization which stands on a partnership between locals/citizen scientists and researchers. Her work with DRACoI has been about collaborating, sharing, translating knowledge across regions, communities and sectors for the main purpose of empowering communities in their struggles for social and environmental justice, while contributing to good policy and good science. Maria has published in local magazines, blogs as well as in academic venues and, currently, she is collaborating with a team of artists to publish a multimedia book that communicates her dissertation to the local and wider non-academic Greek readership.