Yohad Zacarías S. is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in History from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. As a Fulbright doctoral scholar, her research focuses on the rural, urban, environmental, and technological impacts of electrification in Chile and Latin America from the late 19th to the 20th centuries. Before her graduate studies, she served as a teaching and research assistant at several universities in Chile. Building on this
academic foundation, from 2014 to 2022, she was the Outbound International Mobility Coordinator at the University of Chile's International Relations Office. Her research has received recognition and support through grants from organizations such as the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), the Society for the History of Technology
(SHOT), the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), the Tinker Foundation, the Erasmus Program, the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Environmental History (SOLCHA), the Red de Estudios de Ciencias y Saberes en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (RECSLAC), and numerous others.