The “5th Sun Award” from FILAC for her “outstanding contribution to advance the agenda of the rights of Indigenous Peoples.” October 2021.

The Sir Brian Urquhart Award from the UN Association of the United Kingdom for Distinguished Service to the UN. October 2021.

Awarded with the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Women’s Leadership Celebration. The 7th annual event, hosted by Zions Bank, January 2020.

The 2019 Rehabilitation International Award for Outstanding Achievements in Innovation “for her Innovative work in advancing the rights of persons with disabilities globally.”

Declared by the BBC as one of the 100 inspiring and influential women worldwide for 2019. 

The Atahualpa Medal for Merit, Gran Cruz (Grand Cross) class, September 24, 2014; delivered by the Armed Forces of Ecuador for her contribution to their modernization process.

The Honor of the Orden “El Sol del Perú” (The Order of the Sun of Peru), Gran Cruz (Grand Cross) class, February 23, 2007. Awarded by the Government of Peru for her extraordinary willingness to strengthen bilateral ties (i.e., one of the two decorations that the Peruvian State grants to its citizens and prominent foreigners in fields such as the arts, the humanities, culture, and politics that was established in 1821, and it is the oldest decoration in the Americas).

IUCN-Ford Foundation “Democratizing Science Grant,” February 2001

Grant for Senior Scholars, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, March 2000

Society of Women Geographers, Annual Fellowship, 1999-2000.

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship: Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. RUTGERS University, Fall 1996 - Spring 1997.

Ford Foundation-LASPAU Fellowship: "Ford-Amazon Fund," Fall 1994 - Fall 1996 for doctoral studies

Ford Foundation, FLACSO, 1991 – 1993 for Post Graduate studies.

Research Grant from GTZ: German Technical Cooperation Agency for Doctoral Dissertation field work, Summer 1997.

Research Grant to fund Master's Thesis research from Fundación Natura Quito, Ecuador, 1993.

National Poetry Prize, Quito, Ecuador, 1990.