Emilie Dupuits is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant at the Global Studies Institute and the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on the governance of common natural resources – such as water and forests – in Latin America and on transnational networks emerging from the civil society. Her thesis is titled From Grassroots Organizations to Transnational Networks: The Transformations of Water and Forests Community Governance in Latin America.