Nicole Bottman López

AmeriCorps State Food Systems Educator

Nicole Bottman López joined the Plenitud team through the desire to train as an educator and impact her community in Las Marías. She Studied Natural Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey where she delved into various branches of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. Has completed certificates or research in environmental sustainability, climate science, agroecology, caribbean herbalism folklore, forestry, and nutrition. Nicole is co-founder of Bosque Caos, a forest ecology project whose vision is the conservation, regeneration and education of the subtropical humid forest and its cultural values. She met Plenitud PR through the "Agroecological Producers and Promoters Course" with El Josco Bravo and continued involved taking the "Healthy Eating and Wellness Course." She is creative, adventurous, and a dreamer; in her spare time she enjoys surfing, hiking, over-landing, being among the diversity of the forest, planting trees, reading indigenous ancestral knowledge and cooking for her loved ones.