Marty Otañez Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
Biography
Marty Otañez is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology and filmmaker in the Anthropology Department, University of Colorado, Denver. He studies two distinct and overlapping areas: exploitative farm-level practices of tobacco companies in developing countries and digital health stories for policy change. He has published in journals including Tobacco Control; American Journal of Public Health; and Visual Anthropology Review.
Marty is a board member of the Human Rights and Tobacco Control Network (www.hrtcn.net) and member of the task force on Articles 17 and 18 of the Framework Convention Alliance, a global group of advocates that promotes alternative livelihoods for tobacco farmers and farm workers in tobacco growing developing countries. He operates the blog www.fairtradetobacco.org
