Esperanza is a member and founder of Acción Ecológica, an Ecuadorian environmental organization, and co-founder of Oilwatch. She is also president of the Office for the Defense of Nature and its Rights. She holds a biologist degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, is a lawyer, and has an honorary doctorate from the Rovira i Vigili University.
Yasuní: Horizons and Interstices in Social Imagination
Yasuní has become an emblematic place and moment where the multiple crises of our time converge: climatic, ecological, economic, and political. It is a historical knot that concentrates the global contradictions between extractivism and sustainability, between capital expansion and the defense of life.
September 25, 2025
