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• Arturo A. Massol-Deyá is from the mountainous area of Puerto Rico in the municipality of Adjuntas where his parents founded the community-based organization Casa Pueblo. Massol-Deyá grew up in this project and chairs its Board of Directors since 2007. This community-based project was responsible for protecting the central region and its critical watersheds from an open pit mining proposal and later from a massive gas pipeline. Instead, new forest units, El Bosque del Pueblo and Bosque La Olimpia were designated and have been ever since managed by the community initiative. A graduate of the public school system (1986) and the University of Puerto Rico (1990), he obtained his doctoral degree from Michigan State University in 1994 and an honorary degree in Humane Letters from Northern Arizona University in 2023. He is the author of various books and an invited writer for multiple newspapers.