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Staff Mexico

Verónica Méndez

Verónica Méndez Villa is Mexican, a senior attorney with AIDA's Climate Program, and Coordinator of the Clean Energy Area, working from Mexico City. She is an attorney from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana of Mexico and has experience in environmental litigation and research with an emphasis on climate change issues. Verónica holds a Master of Law (LL.M.) in environmental law from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and she is currently studying Renewable Energy Engineering at the Universidad Abierta y a Distancia of México. 

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Staff Mexico

Sofía García León

Sofia Garcia Leon was an intern with AIDA's Human Rights and Environment Program from Mexico City. She studies Law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she focuses her learning on international human rights law and environmental law with a gender and intersectional approach.

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Staff Mexico

Camille Legrand

Camille Legrand is an intern with AIDA's Freshwater Program, working from Mexico City. She holds a Master's degree in International Development, with a focus on socio-environmental conflict and energy issues, from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In Mexico, she has experience as a researcher on the development of wind mega-projects in Oaxaca and on water issues in Cuatro Ciénagas, Coahuila.

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Staff Colombia

Yeny Rodríguez Junco

Yeny Rodríguez Junco is Colombian and a senior attorney with AIDA's Territories Program, as well as Coordinator of the Mining Area, working from Bogotá. She also coordinates the  Environmental Justice Network in Colombia. She is a lawyer and human rights specialist from the Universidad Externado de Colombia and holds a Master's degree in Development, with an emphasis on environmental development, from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. She worked at the Colombian Constitutional Court and was a consultant for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. She has extensive experience in litigation, legal advocacy and public law.

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Staff United States

Eli Wilkins-Malloy

Eli Wilkins-Malloy is AIDA's Development Director, leading the organization’s fundraising strategy, and Head of the U.S. office. He works from Tallahassee, Florida. Eli holds a Master's in Public Administration with a specialization in nonprofit management from New York University. He brings significant experience in nonprofit operations, program management, and development to AIDA, having worked to support communities and organizations across the Americas for the protection of environmental, human, and indigenous rights.

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Staff Mexico

María Fernanda Ordoñez Cazares

María Fernanda Ordoñez Cazares was an intern in AIDA's Freshwater Program from Mexico City. She is a geophysical engineer from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and holds a Diploma in Climate Change Law and Governance. She has experience in the private sector in electromobility and distributed generation.

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Esteban Ibarguren

Esteban Ibarguren Rüting is an intern in the Freshwater and Marine Biodiversity and Coastal Protection programs. He works with AIDA from Uruguay. He holds a degree in Biological Sciences with an emphasis on Environmental Management and Remote Sensing from the University of the Republic in Montevideo.

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Staff Colombia

Daniela García Aguirre

Daniela García Aguirre is Colombian and Coordinator of the Air Quality Area in AIDA's Human Rights and Environment Program, working from Bogotá. She is an environmental engineer (B.Sc.) and lawyer (LL.B.) from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and holds a Master's degree in Environmental Law and Public Policy (LL.M.) from Stanford University, California, USA. She is a former Deputy Director of Air, Hearing and Visual Quality at the District Secretariat of Environment of Bogotá. Daniela has significant experience in air quality monitoring and in the development of environmental public policies from an environmental justice perspective. She has also developed an important academic work advising communities in the construction of strategic litigation to guarantee the rights to health and a healthy environment.

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Staff Chile

Claudia Arancibia

Claudia Arancibia Cortés is an External Consultant for AIDA's Marine Biodiversity and Coastal Protection Program. She is a lawyer from the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. She has participated since she was very young in extracurricular activities focused on the protection of the environment and animals. As a consultant with AIDA, she collaborates on the project, "Halting the Expansion of Salmon Farming in Chilean Patagonia."

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Staff Brazil

Tiago Medeiros

Tiago Medeiros Delgado is an intern in the Human Rights and the Environment Program. He is an attorney from the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, with a Masters in Human Rights from University College London, where we was a fellow with the Chevening Program. He has international experience with the United Nations at their headquarters in New York and Geneva. His work focuses on the links between human rights and the environment, a just transition, and the protection of people and organizations dedicated to the defense of human rights.

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