Teamwork

General Coordination and Administration Team

Tatiana Rodríguez Maldonado

General Coordinator

Political scientist from Universidad Nacional de Colombia with a Master’s degree in Communication from Universidad Javeriana. He has researched on multiple topics of public interest, mainly environment, urban issues, armed conflict and historical memory.

She was advisor to Carlos Vicente de Roux in the Council of Bogota, coordinator of the Support Group for initiatives at the National Center of Historical Memory, CNMH, and member of the Planning Advisory Office of the Unit for the Search for Missing Persons, UBPD, between 2013 and 2021.

At Censat Agua Viva she was the coordinator of the Mining Area between 2010 and 2013, year from which she joined the General Assembly and the Board of Directors. He continued to collaborate with the organization in international advocacy and led the research conducted for the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition to deepen the understanding of the relationship between the armed conflict and nature. This research was conducted within the framework of the project «Rivers in the war: patterns of environmental impacts of the internal armed conflict in Colombia (1958 – 2016)». The results included pedagogical tools such as Fishing for Memories, the web documentary Whirlwinds of war and development on the Sogamoso River in Santander (winner as best first film at the Barichara Film Festival in 2022) and the catalog of the same name.

In addition to being the current General Coordinator of Censat Agua Viva, she is the advisor for Colombia of the Global Greengrants Fund, GGF.

Some of the works she has authored or edited are: «Imagen y discurso: construcción de sentido en las portadas de las revistas Semana y Cambio 1998-2004» (2006), «¿Agua o minería? Un debate nacional» (2011), «La gran minería en Colombia: el boom de los conflictos socioambientales» (2017), «Memorias que germinan: iniciativas de memoria histórica para narrar vivencias del conflicto armado en Colombia» (2018) and «Barrio tomado: el discurrir de Las Aguas en Bogotá» (2019), a book with which she won the award for publication of unpublished work from the Ministry of Culture.

General Coordination and Administration Team

Sonia Medina Manjarrés

Administrative Coordinator

Public Accountant and Professional Secretarial Technician of the National Apprenticeship Service, Sena. She has worked at Censat Agua Viva since 2009, serving as secretary, accounting assistant, accountant and, currently, as administrative coordinator.

I would like to specialize in Forensic Auditing.

General Coordination and Administration Team

Viviana Castro Rodríguez

Accounting and administrative assistant

Technician in commercial consulting and operations in financial entities, Public Accountant in training at the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (National Open and Distance University). Worked at Fundación Social Vive Colombia. She is motivated by finishing her degree, learning about environmental issues, learning how to drive and to travel and learn from many places. He hopes to specialize in Auditing.

General Coordination and Administration Team

Nina Daniela Pérez Campos

Accounting and administrative assistant

Technologist in Business Administration graduated from Colegio Universitario de Administración y Mercadeo located in Carabobo, Venezuela. Her greatest motivation is her family, every day she works for their welfare so that her children have a better quality of life and be a positive role model for them, besides making her parents proud and being an unconditional support for her husband.

General Coordination and Administration Team

Orlando Chaparro

Statutory Auditor

Public Accountant from Universidad La Gran Colombia, with a Master’s Degree in Management from Universidad del Rosario. He is a director of Advisory International, after years of being an advisor and consultant in evaluation issues, administrative, tax and financial information control. He has published on «The value shared in the SMEs from the Accounting Information Systems» and «Factors that affect the sustainability of medium and family businesses in Bogotá D.C.».

General Coordination and Administration Team

Lorena Rodríguez Romero

Accountant

Public Accountant graduated from Universidad de Cundinamarca, Fusagasugá. She combined her studies as an accountant with work as an accounting assistant and administrative secretary, which gave her solid knowledge in the use of Office tools and accounting software. Likewise, I have worked during my studies in customer service and sales, so I have the tools and soft skills for customer service. His youth and his desire to work allow him to be a very active person. She is a fast learner, has a great love for her profession and is eager to grow both professionally and personally.

Water Area, Common Good

Diego Andrés Martínez Zambrano

Area Coordinator

Popular educator and cyclist. Master in Analysis of the University of Buenos Aires and the University of philosopher of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has experience in the field of his research on socio-environmental issues, his interest revolves around the issues of privatization and commodification of water, public-community water management, and the defense of moorlands and high altitudes. mountains. It has promoted and carried out processess of formal and popular environmental education on water issues and community environmental monitoring.

His master’s thesis, with meritorious mention, is «Environmental Rhetoric. Discourse analysis on the representation of environmentalism in Colombia» (2014). Other of his recent works, both as editor and author are «Guarantees and conditions for the defense of water in Colombia» (2021), «Public policy and the fundamental right to water in Latin America and the Caribbean» (2018), «Waters of the resistance. Study on community water management in the department of Nariño» (2019), «Aguas: entre la privatización y las alternativas» (2016)and the chapter «Garantías y condiciones para la defensa del agua Colombia» of the Informe Nacional de Agua (2016).

He is a member of the Censat Agua Viva Assembly.

Water Area, Common Good

Camilo Restrepo

Area Professional

Sociologist, candidate for a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies at the Universidad de la República.(Uruguay). Member of the Political Theory research group. Contemporary (Teopoco) of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, where he is an occasional lecturer. It is part of the coordination of the research project on ‘Southern Political Thought’. Has integrated processes of popular ecological resistance to large-scale mining, such as the case of ‘La Colosa’ in Tolima, as well as in Montevideo, Uruguay, against progressive extractive policies.

His research interests include the anarcho-environmentalist perspective, popular movements, the political sociology and community studies. Your article «Contemporary Anarchism in Latin America. Ecological, anti-patriarchal and anti-patriarchal ethics and practice.ticolonial», was published by the Latin American Culture Magazine. Its role in the area of ‘Water, a common good’ at Censat Agua Viva is focused on contributing to pedagogical, research and advocacy processes.

Mining Conflicts Area

Catalina Caro Galvis

Area Coordinator

Popular environmentalist and feminist. Anthropologist and Master in Geography at the National University of Colombia, where she is part of the research group Culture and Environment of the Department of Geography. She has researched issues related to human rights in indigenous peoples of the southwest and the Colombian Caribbean, socio-environmental conflicts associated with mining in various regions of the country and issues of self-education and intercultural education.

She was a professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Ecology at the Universidad Javeriana and the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She worked as a researcher at Cinep, at the Corporación Ensayos and at the Casa de Pensamiento of the Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Norte del Cauca, ACIN.

Her Master’s thesis, with meritorious mention, is «La piquiña de la minería: prácticas territoriales y transformaciones socio-espaciales en los resguardos indígenas nasa del Cerro Munchique Santander de Quilichao, Colombia 2009-2019» (2022). Other works include «Dreaming future in the land of oblivion: co-collaborative journeys to imagine transition» (2021), How to get out of coal dependence? Elementos para debatir una transición socioeconómica en La Guajira» (2019), » Las venas de la tierra, la sangre de la vida: significados y conflictos por el agua en la zona carbonífera del sur de la Guajira, Colombia» (2018), and «Minería en el norte del Cauca indígena. Territorial practices and socio-spatial transformations in the Nasa indigenous reservations of the municipality of Santander de Quilichao, Cauca» (2014).

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Mining Conflicts Area

Paula Andrea Portela Montoya

Area Professional

Anthropologist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with experience in social research, school and community work with youth, ethnic and rural communities, in intercultural education projects, gender, territorial defense and agricultural production.

At Censat Agua Viva, she researches socio-environmental and post-extractivist transition, fair mining closure, minerals for transition and the role of women in territorial defense, particularly in the Caribbean region and southwestern Antioquia.

Energy and Climate Justice

Tatiana Roa Avendaño

Area Coordinator

Colombian environmentalist and activist, co-founder of Censat Agua Viva and of the Emerger Fund that finances small projects in Colombia. As an activist, she is part of networks and articulations. including Oilwatch, the Colombia Fracking Free Alliance and the Colombia Fracking Free Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South. She is a petroleum engineer from Universidad Industrial de Santander, holds a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from UASB in Quito, Ecuador and is a doctoral candidate at Cedla, University of Amsterdam.

She was one of the promoters of the Referendum for water, which sought a constitutional change for recognize water as a fundamental right. He has written numerous articles on water, extractivism, resistance and alternativismtive to development. She is co-author of the book «Aguas represadas, el case of the Sogamoso hydroelectric project» (2012). She has been editor and co-editor of several books, from the most recent of which are «Extractivism, conflicts and resistances» (2014), «Like water and the oil. Socio-environmental conflicts over oil extraction» (2018), «Energy transition in. Colombia: approaches, debates and proposals» (2018), and «Energies for transition. Reflections and stories» (2021). Participated along with other100 authors in the book «Pluriverso. A dictionary of post-development», which has been published in several countries and languages.

He has participated in the production of documentaries such as «Lives repressed. Between the floodingón and displacement» (2013), «The blind advance of fracking» (2017), «Digester bales: breaking down. residues, composing communities» (2021), and «The awakening of a people» (2022). It is part of various research groups, such as the Permanent Working Group on Alternatives to the developthe Alliance for Water Justice, Political Ecology Working Group Abya–Yala de Clacso and the Working Group Territorialities in Dispute and re–existence, also from Clacso. Participates in the International Committee of the journal Ecología Política. of the Icaria publishing house and the Revista Energía y Equidad, which is promoted by the group of the same name.

He is a member of the Censat Agua Viva Assembly.

Energy and Climate Justice

Juan Pablo Soler Villamizar

Project Coordinator

Researcher in the area of Energy and Climate Justice at Censat Agua Viva, graduate in Engineering. Chemistry with specialization in Energy and society in contemporary capitalism. It was linked tothe organization in 2004 and is a member of the General Assembly ofsde 2014. Has accompanied environmental conflicts associated with the provision of public services on the Caribbean Coast, the oil and gas extraction in U’wa territory and forced displacement due to dams, and researched the oil and energy policy of theColombian economy since the end of the 1990s. Promotes that community energies have a legal framework to support and recognize them in the national public policy and for communities to play an active role in energy management.

Es co–creator of initiatives such as the School of Community Technicians in Alternative Energies, of the diploma Just Energy Transition: of the peoples and for the peoples than Censat Water Viva, together with the Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida y lhe Universidad del Tolima; the Virtual exhibition of community experiences for a Just Energy Transitionof the Panel Itinerant on Mining and Energy Policy and its conflicts in Colombia that led to the debate on the energy model to the countryside and theiversities.

He was part of the Friends of the Earth International Climate Justice and Climate Justice Steering Team. Energy (2013 – 2017), the coordination of the Latin American Network for Action against Dams–Redlar (2006–2015) and is co–founder of the Red Colombiana de Pueblos Afectados y threatened by dams, water diversions and CDM projects that later became the CDM Movement. Colombian Rios Vivos «Ríos Vivos», where he has been a spokesman for the Agrarian and Campesino Summit, Ethnic and Popular and the CLOC–Via Campesina. He is part of the Political and Pedagogical Coordination of the Movement of People Affected by Dams of America, MAR, and co-founder of the Communities Sowing Territories, Waters and Autonomies, Setaa Communities.

Some of his publications are Propuesta de Transición Energética en América Latina(2020) and Oportunidades y Desafíos para las energías comunitarias en Colombia(2021), and Aproximaciones y debates de la transición Energética en Colombia.(2018) among others. He is currently a columnist for Raya Magazine.

Energy and Climate Justice

Andrés Gómez Orozco

Area Professional

Petroleum engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, specialist in geothermal engineering from the University of Auckland (New Zealand), and Master of Arts from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. of Colombia, in creative writing. She is currently a professional in the Energy and Climate Justice of Censat Agua Viva, where it investigates the issues of hydrocarbons, climate, post-conflict societies and the environment.oil companies and environmental transition. It is part of the «Alianza Colombia Free of Fracking. He is also vice-president of the community aqueduct of the village of Cascajo (Marinilla), Antioquia) and columnist for Las 2 Orillas. He worked in the oil industry for Ecopetrol, Halliburton and Weatherford (Mexico). Has participated in in national and international discussions, processes and publications on the exploitation of unconventional reservoirs, fracking, and post-petroleum transitions.

Energy and Climate Justice

Mariana Pinzón Cortés

Area Professional

Social Communicator with a Master’s degree in Environment and Development from the Instituto de Estudios Environmental Studies, IDEA, of the National University of Colombia. Its initial development as a professional focused on accompanying, understanding, and socializing the realities of people displaced by the violence, inhabitants and demobilized combatants; subsequently, and in the face of the impotence by the rigidity of the country’s social system, which traces violent destinies for the majority of the population. and the evidence of the planet’s generosity and threat to the planet by human actions.not current, redirects their interest to environmental issues. There, he has investigated some of the urban bets back to the field and provided communications support to the Observatorio de Conflictos Ambientales, OCA, and IDEA of the Universidad Nacional.

She currently works in the Energy and Climate Justice Area of Censat Agua Viva, where she supports research, communication and pedagogical activities related to a just energy transition.

Energy and Climate Justice

Eliana Carolina Carrillo Rodríguez

Area Professional

Anthropologist, graduated from Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, with research interests in feminist political ecology, environmental justice, gender and environment, Latin American feminisms and gender-based violence. She is part of the research group Espacialidades Feministas (Cider, Universidad de los Andes) and of the group Cultura y Ambiente of the Universidad Nacional.

Some of the works she has authored or co-authored are: «Cuerpos-Agua: defensa y cuidado del territorio a través de la experiencia de las mujeres de la Escuela Campesina de Chapacual, Nariño» (2020), graduate work that received honorable mention; and «Ninguna agresión sin respuesta! Acciones de colectivas feministas universitarias de Bogotá frente al acoso sexual» (2022).

Energy and Climate Justice

Nelson Andrés Ravelo Franco

Area Professional

Physicist from the National University of Colombia and Master in Technology for Social Development from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with a dissertation that received an honorable mention from the Brazilian Association of Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies, Esocite.

Educator The work he has done on the teaching of physics at the pre-university level has been very popular with his work on the teaching of physics at the pre-university level. Bogotá and for his work in the coordination and as an educator of the course of extension «Critical training in technical systemsThe «Energy Efficiency and Energy Efficiency» project developed in articulation between the Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Social Development, Nides and the Workers’ Movement Landless Rural Workers, MST, from Brazil. Thanks to these experiences, she has the following interests The research program is focused on popular education in the natural sciences, the democratization of technological development and the energy transition as a cultural and political process.

Forestry and Biodiversity Area

Diego Alejandro Cardona Calle

Area Coordinator

Environmentalist and agroforestry practitioner. Forestry Engineer, Master in Tropical Forest Sciences. Dynamizer of the opening of the Area of Forests and Biodiversity, of which he was co-founder; researcher in community management of forests and territories, deforestation, green economy and financialization of nature. He was chair of the Global Forest Coalition between 2015 and 2020 and is also the current regional co-coordinator of the Forests and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International. Member of the CENSAT Agua Viva Assembly.

He has worked on research to corroborate the contribution of family and/or traditional agriculture to soil conservation and biodiversity in the Colombian Andes and the Brazilian Amazon. Part of the results of this work is available in: Conservação de recursos genéticos vegetais in situ em comunidades rurais Amazônicas: o caso da Reserva Extrativista Rio Jutaí – Amazonas (2013); Ciclo de nutrimentos y actividad microbiana en cafetales a libre exposición solar y bajo sombrío de Guamo Inga spp (2005); Evaluación de propiedades físicas y químicas de suelos establecidos bajo café con sombra y a plena exposición solar (2005).

In addition to researching issues related to forests, monoculture tree plantations, certification and the commodification of nature, among others, he has also worked with communities and grassroots organizations to transform them, mainly through community-based forest and land management initiatives. Some contributions in this regard are: Community Forest Management and Agroecology. Linkages and Implications (2017) and Green Economy Alerts Collection (2018 and 2020).

Forestry and Biodiversity Area

Linda Gonzalez

Area Professional

Anthropologist from the Federal University of Latin American Integration and Master in Anthropology. Social Work of the Federal University of Paraná. He is a member of the board of directors and the publications committee of the Colombian Association of AnthropologyACANT. In Censat Agua Viva is part of the area of Forests and Biodiversity, where it works and researches on issues related to: green economy and financialization of nature, deforestation and forest fires, and community management of forests and territories.

She has worked in social research projects on issues such as territory, human rights, interculturality and ethno-development, as well as in training, mobilization and political articulation processes with indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon.

Some of her publications include «Educação Escolar Guarani em Contexto Transfronteiriço»(2017)-co-authored, «Leaving ‘Sentimental Pessimism’ Behind: anthropological reflections on indigenous populations as subjects of study» (2018), and «Mbyá Guarani e Turismo na Tríplice Fronteira: Tensões e Representações Turísticas Sobre ‘O Guarani'» (2018).

Communications Team

Laura Berrío Flórez

Communications Coordinator

Graphic designer with a specialization in Collective Memory and Human Rights and a Master’s degree in Social Communication of Science. Interested in the exploration ofThe creation of means for the co-creation and transmission of knowledge using tools from the arts, humanities and scientific knowledge to promote innovation processes in the field of science and technology.social integration. He has oriented his professional practice to development of communicative strategies within cultural and educational projects that seek to favor dialogue among the diverse actors of social processes.

Communications Team

Alfonso Cañón

Area Professional

Bachelor’s degree in community education with emphasis on Human Rights, from the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, with experience in community education processes. Popular communicator, workshop leader with experience in collective and participatory construction of advocacy and communication plans and strategies, as well as in the implementation of pedagogies and methodologies for the strengthening of participatory, communication and memory processes. From a political dimension, she has accompanied different communication and graphic production exercises for union, youth, popular, educational and women’s scenarios. His interest in the field of communication focuses on the construction of messages, narratives and aesthetics that allow to dispute or deform the common sense built from hegemonic spaces.

He was coordinator of the communications management of the social and political movement Congreso de los Pueblos, coordinator and member of communications committees for national advocacy campaigns «Párese duro, ser líder social no es delito», «Caravana humanitaria al Cañón del Micay», «El campo se respeta», «Participar es paz», among others. He was a pedagogical advisor for the creation of the didactic proposal for the dissemination of the mission of the Unit for the Search for Missing Persons, UPBD, member of the pedagogical committee of the Week for Peace in 2019, in charge of defining strategies and didactic and pedagogical actions for the dissemination of peace proposals.

Advocacy and Training and Pedagogy Teams

Marcela Gómez Martínez

Project Coordinator

Woman mountaineer on the slopes of Kumanday. With a degree in Biology from the University of Caldas. With research interests in climate changefinancialization of nature and biocultural memory. Experience in environmental popular education processes, especially with communities. It is part of the Kumanday Study Center and the Montes de la Plata articulation. Natives without Monocultures where he shows his interest in learning about, caring for and defending the life of the high mountain. As coordinator of the Polinizadores del Territorio project, she is focused on articulating organizations and communities in defense of the middle Cauca river basin and enable the emergence of popular environmental education processes with children in the same region.