I am an Anthropologist with minors in Biology and Geography, a master degree in Social Anthropology in Colombia and an MSc in Holistic Sciences at Schumacher College, UK. I have experience working with indigenous peoples and local communities regarding territorial and environmental issues, from the public and civil society sector. I’ve lived in the Amazon and admire indigenous people´s knowledge systems, as these address the integrity of the world and have a sense of co-responsibility with the living system they participate in. My activist spirit awoke when my homeland was threatened by a potential open pit gold mine in 2013 and since then I have supported grass-root movements in defense of territory through her volunteer participation in the global solidarity network Yes to Life No to Mining as global south coordinator. 

I have been working with Fundación Gaia Amazonas since 2015 leading the consolidation of a regional strategy that has called upon the creation of the North Amazon Alliance to guarantee the protection of the integrity of the Amazon through safeguarding ecosystem and sociocultural connectivity in the region north of the Amazon River, one of the largest and best-preserved rainforests in the world. I coordinated the Green Livelihoods Alliance program for Gaia Amazonas until 2025, implemented in eleven tropical forest countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America which aimed to strengthen the capacities of indigenous peoples and local communities for the sustainable and inclusive management of tropical forests. 

I am currently part of the coordination team of the North Amazon Alliance, which brings together nine civil society organizations in five Amazonian countries. For the alliance I lead the joint regional advocacy strategies based on indigenous peoples´ governance, management and knowledge systems. I facilitate convenings and encounters where joint priorities and perspectives are collectively identified in order to inform national, regional and global policy frameworks and discussions. 

I am the lead author of the chapter focused on socio-bioeconomies and connectivity in the Amazon for the recently released Assessment Report of the Science Panel for the Amazon, and have also spearheaded the formation of the Amazonía Conectada coalition, which brings together the North Amazon Alliance, the Science Panel for the Amazon, RAISG and Alianza Aguas Amazónicas, all impactful regional networks with complementary expertise and a shared vision for safeguarding multidimensional connectivity in the Amazon.