Despite carrying out a very intense academic, national and international activity, in 2019 Sagaris returned to serve on the Neighborhood Council 13 Mario Baeza, from the Bellavista neighborhood (Providencia), being re-elected in 2022. With a multifaceted strategy, together with other leaders, he managed to rebuild the Neighborhood Council, which (after having been rejected several times) the Municipality of Providencia fulfilled its legal obligation to give them a headquarters, organizing a sophisticated citizen science system to monitor alcohol problems, violence, poverty and other issues in the neighborhood.

At the beginning of 2024, a report from the Comptroller's Office confirms serious irregularities in the Municipality of Providencia, associated with the physical destruction of Pío Nono Street, an increasingly violent center for drug trafficking and other problems of incivility and crimes in the Bellavista neighborhood. More than 90 official letters, requests for transparency and citizen oversight have found clear indications of the role of the excessive concentration of alcohol licenses as the main cause of the violence that has plagued this beautiful heritage neighborhood for several years. Today, as always, its residents fight together with the most committed businesses and companies to return cordiality, heritage, nature and good coexistence as the center of its identity.

As an academic, Dr. Sagaris has published extensively in some of the most prestigious journals in her discipline, planning, mobility and health, being co-director of the international scientific society, Transport & Health Science Group, associated with the Journal of Transport & Health, of which she is a member of its Editorial Board (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-transport-and-health/about/editorial-board). Its space for participatory research for action (IPA) is the Social Change Laboratory, a collaboration between researchers from various universities, especially the Catholic University, and citizen organizations, leaders in issues of mobility, migration, social integration and equity.

She was co-editor of a special issue on mobility, health and gender (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221414052030058X) and in recent years has specialized in issues of road, criminal and gender violence, and urban planning strategies to prevent these problems. With a team from Foco Migrante, between 2015-2023, Bakanes Routes to School was co-created—with schools and neighborhoods from El Bosque, Lautaro, and Independencia—a Latin American innovation in the Safe Routes to School programs initially developed in Denmark and then the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries.

Due to her responsibilities as a citizen leader (2000-2013) and during the years as an adjunct associate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2013-2024), she traveled extensively, but always returned to Chile, committed to finding ways to co-build more inclusive, healthy and safe cities in that, her country of choice. He also maintains close ties with family and friends in Canada, as well as collaborations with colleagues in that country, especially the cities of Toronto and Montreal, which offer some important lessons for urban planning and community development in Chile.

For a more complete list of her publications and academic works, you can consult her name in Google scholar or another academic indexing system or her web space at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), where she remains an associate researcher (https://www.cedeus.cl/about-us/researchers/i-lake-sagaris/).

Despite carrying out a very intense academic, national and international activity, in 2019 Sagaris returned to serve on the Neighborhood Council 13 Mario Baeza, from the Bellavista neighborhood (Providencia), being re-elected in 2022. With a multifaceted strategy, together with other leaders, he managed to rebuild the Neighborhood Council, which (after having been rejected several times) the Municipality of Providencia fulfilled its legal obligation to give them a headquarters, organizing a sophisticated citizen science system to monitor alcohol problems, violence, poverty and other issues in the neighborhood.

At the beginning of 2024, a report from the Comptroller's Office confirms serious irregularities in the Municipality of Providencia, associated with the physical destruction of Pío Nono Street, an increasingly violent center for drug trafficking and other problems of incivility and crimes in the Bellavista neighborhood. More than 90 official letters, requests for transparency and citizen oversight have found clear indications of the role of the excessive concentration of alcohol licenses as the main cause of the violence that has plagued this beautiful heritage neighborhood for several years. Today, as always, its residents fight together with the most committed businesses and companies to return cordiality, heritage, nature and good coexistence as the center of its identity.

As an academic, Dr. Sagaris has published extensively in some of the most prestigious journals in her discipline, planning, mobility and health, being co-director of the international scientific society, Transport & Health Science Group, associated with the Journal of Transport & Health, of which she is a member of its Editorial Board (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-transport-and-health/about/editorial-board). Its space for participatory research for action (IPA) is the Social Change Laboratory, a collaboration between researchers from various universities, especially the Catholic University, and citizen organizations, leaders in issues of mobility, migration, social integration and equity.

She was co-editor of a special issue on mobility, health and gender (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221414052030058X) and in recent years has specialized in issues of road, criminal and gender violence, and urban planning strategies to prevent these problems. With a team from Foco Migrante, between 2015-2023, Bakanes Routes to School was co-created—with schools and neighborhoods from El Bosque, Lautaro, and Independencia—a Latin American innovation in the Safe Routes to School programs initially developed in Denmark and then the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries.

Due to her responsibilities as a citizen leader (2000-2013) and during the years as an adjunct associate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2013-2024), she traveled extensively, but always returned to Chile, committed to finding ways to co-build more inclusive, healthy and safe cities in that, her country of choice. He also maintains close ties with family and friends in Canada, as well as collaborations with colleagues in that country, especially the cities of Toronto and Montreal, which offer some important lessons for urban planning and community development in Chile.

For a more complete list of her publications and academic works, you can consult her name in Google scholar or another academic indexing system or her web space at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), where she remains an associate researcher (https://www.cedeus.cl/about-us/researchers/i-lake-sagaris/).