Join us for a powerful conversation with Peruvian women environmental defenders as they share firsthand experiences from the frontlines of climate activism in the Amazon. Learn about the challenges they face, the communities they protect, and the urgent realities of defending land, water, and life in one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from those leading the fight for environmental justice in the Amazon.
Free and open to the public. Q&A to follow. This will be a Zoom meeting with simultaneous translation.
Ruth Buendía
Ruth is a renowned Asháninka Indigenous leader and an environmental activist from the Peruvian Amazon. As former president of the Central Asháninka del Río Ene (CARE), she led a successful opposition to two hydroelectric projects that threatened to flood and displace her people. For her efforts, she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014. At the age of 12, she was displaced by the internal armed conflict in Peru, an experience that shaped her lifelong fight for territorial and cultural rights of Indigenous peoples.
Jane Shirley Mori
Jane is an Agroforestry and Aquaculture Engineer from the Shipibo - Konibo people. She works with Indigenous communities in her region of Ucayali, on projects led by NGOs and Indigenous organizations that align with her professional training. She serves as a facilitator on topics such as empowerment, sexual education, traditional crafts, soft skills, communal governance, strategic planning, life plans, productive activities, and territorial monitoring committees. She currently works as an extension agent at the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation.
