Eva Lilia Martínez Ordóñez is Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH). She serves on the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Intangible Heritage and has extensive experience supporting UNESCO through capacity-building on community-based inventorying and safeguarding, project evaluation, and further initiatives linking intangible cultural heritage with climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction across Latin America and the Caribbean.