WariNkwi Flores is a citizen of the Kara Andean and Kichwa Andean::Amazonian Nations and founder of the Kinray Hub, an Indigenous RDI Think::Do Tank operating across Ecuador and the United States. It centers IPs&LCs as sovereign actors in climate finance, data equity shares, and nature-based solutions. An IPBES Fellow at the 2nd Global Assessment and a contributor to international biodiversity credit frameworks through the IAPB and BCA-WEF collaboration, Flores specializes in Indigenous Data Sovereignty, BioKulture Systems Design, and trans-systems negotiation conditions for voluntary carbon and biodiversity markets. Flores has represented Indigenous Peoples at international meetings such as COP16, CEIBA, and EMRIP, and publishes in the fields of natural science, political economy, data authority, and Indigenous research policy.