
Amazon Frontlines is our name, but more than that, it is the place where we live and work

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.

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


emergildo criollo

nemonte nenquimo

mitch anderson
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

alicia salazar
our team

ALEJANDRA ALZATE
DIGITAL STRATEGIES MANAGER

ALEX GOFF
Development Director

ANGEL GONZALEZ
Junior Attorney

ELENA MONOVELLA
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

GABRIELA BOLIVAR
PARTNERSHIPS COORDINATOR

JEREMY NELSON
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

JERÓNIMO ZÚÑIGA
Director of Programs

JORGE ACERO
Rights Team Leader

LUCREZIA BOSIO
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

Luisana AGUILAR
NATIONAL MEDIA COORDINATOR

LUKE WEISS
MAPING & MONITORING TEAM LEADER

MARÍA ESPINOSA
Legal Defender Program Coordinator

nicolas kingman
production & communications training lead

Pablo Castillo
Junior Attorney

paolo solís
People & Culture and Operations Manager

ylenia torricelli
Culture Team Leader

sophie pinchetti
external communications manager

Thomas Worsdell
Monitoring Field Coordinator

Liliana Muñoz
People and Culture Coordinator

Santiago Novoa
Operations Coordinator

Carlos Mazabanda
Mapping and Monitoring Coordinator

Patricia Peñaherrera
Education Coordinator

Francis Andrade
Junior Attorney

Red Rotkopf
Fundraising Storyteller
board of directors

josh fryday
board treasure

ginger cassady
board president

felicity lark hei-meu
board secretary

raymond garvey
honorary board member / cofounder clearwater project

justin winters

franca sciuto
honorary board member