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Amazon Frontlines is our name, but more than that, it is the place where we live and work
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Our team hails from many parts of the world – mainly from the towns and cities of Europe, North America, and South America. Now, we are living and working in Ecuador’s northern Amazon: a place where the freshwater creeks have been turned into a source of sickness; a place where the oil companies and the government offer “development” in exchange for the oil beneath the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples; a place where thousands of years of indigenous science and spiritual knowledge can disappear in the span of decades.
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Our most profound question is how to best, most honestly, most effectively support these struggles.
Our mission is to support the struggles of indigenous peoples to defend their rights to land, life and cultural survival.
We partner with the Ceibo Alliance, an indigenous-led organization comprised of members of the Siona, Secoya, Kofan, and Waorani peoples, who are building a movement in defense of their rights to land, life and cultural survival.
our values
- We believe that the fight to protect the world’s rainforests cannot succeed without the empowerment and cultural survival of their indigenous inhabitants.
- We affirm that the realities of indigenous community life and the threats indigenous peoples face in the Amazon cannot be understood without living and sharing in their daily struggles.
- We realize that indigenous peoples cannot be properly supported without that understanding.
- We commit to building a successful grassroots movement based on hard work, humility, mutual respect and honest partnership.
- We believe that the skills, knowledge, and experience that we and our partners gain in this process have the power to change the world.
Founders of Amazon Frontlines and Ceibo Alliance
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emergildo criollo
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nemonte nenquimo
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mitch anderson
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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alicia salazar
our team
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ALEJANDRA ALZATE
DIGITAL STRATEGIES MANAGER
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ALEX GOFF
Development Director
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ANGEL GONZALEZ
Junior Attorney
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Carlos Mazabanda
Mapping and Monitoring Coordinator
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Dario Ramírez
Communications Director
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ELENA MONOVELLA
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
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Erika Castillo
Field Communications Coordinator
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Francis Andrade
Junior Attorney
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GABRIELA BOLIVAR
PARTNERSHIPS COORDINATOR
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JEREMY NELSON
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS
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JERÓNIMO ZÚÑIGA
Director of Programs
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JORGE ACERO
Rights Team Leader
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Juan Pablo Sáenz
Administrative and Operational Coordinator of the Allpamanta Project
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Liliana Muñoz
People and Culture Coordinator
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Luisana AGUILAR
NATIONAL MEDIA COORDINATOR
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LUKE WEISS
MAPING & MONITORING TEAM LEADER
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MARÍA ESPINOSA
Legal Defender Program Coordinator
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Monzerratte Correa
Staff Accountant
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nicolas kingman
production & communications training lead
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Omar T. Bobadilla
Web design, Multimedia and Art Coordinator
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Pablo Castillo
Junior Attorney
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Paola Maldonado
Allpamanta Project Leader
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paolo solís
People & Culture and Operations Manager
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Patricia Peñaherrera
Education Coordinator
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Red Rotkopf
Fundraising Storyteller
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Santiago Novoa
Operations Coordinator
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sophie pinchetti
external communications manager
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Thomas Worsdell
Monitoring Field Coordinator
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ylenia torricelli
Culture Team Leader
board of directors
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josh fryday
board treasure
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ginger cassady
board president
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felicity lark hei-meu
board secretary
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raymond garvey
honorary board member / cofounder clearwater project
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Michael Duignan
Board Member
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justin winters
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franca sciuto
honorary board member