Macarena has created, directed, and coordinated projects focused on the revaluation of materials and citizen participation in architecture in L’Aquila, Italy; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and Chile.
Selected as one of Chile’s 10 socio-environmental entrepreneurs by YouthActionNet in 2016. She worked as communications coordinator for the Latin American anaerobic biodigestion network (RedBioLAC), as a lecturer for the Circular Economy Laboratory applied to Architecture course and the SUS1000 course at PUC in Chile, and for the Environment & Sustainability course at U.Mayor.In 2015, she founded Fundación Basura, where she served as executive director for 10 years.