SHB
Sindy Hernández Bonilla
Fundación Avina
Coordinadora Proyecto
Guatemalan with more than 20 years of experience in human mobility, human rights and socio-environmental development. From local territories to regional and international spaces, she promotes processes that recognise and position the knowledge built from the communities, as well as their capacity to propose viable and contextualised alternatives. Its work has focused on building bridges between diverse actors - grassroots organisations, public institutions, international cooperation and academia - that contribute to the design of policies that recognise territorial particularities and contribute to redressing historical inequalities.
Her work focuses on the value of knowledge generated in the territories as a basis for more contextualised public policies with a sense of social justice. She is currently part of Fundación AVINA, where she co-coordinates a regional initiative that strengthens the capacities for action and advocacy of migrant organisations in the north of Central America. She is a biologist from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and holds a Master's degree in Rural Development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco.
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