Throughout history, social justice movements have fought tirelessly for legal and political transformation. However, today we know that this is insufficient to transform reality. Beyond laws, it is narratives that shape culture, and it is the invisible power of hegemonic narratives that limits our perception of what is possible, normalizing injustice and inequality.
At this crucial moment for the planet and humanity, we call for a radical act of radical imagination to envision a new horizon.
At Puentes, we work to strengthen the narrative power of social justice movements in Latin America.
Expanding connections means building political infrastructure: the relational and emotional conditions that allow diverse efforts to converge, reach scale, gain density, and sustain themselves over time. It involves connecting movements, territories, ways of knowing and doing, and diverse audiences around shared horizons, without erasing differences or imposing uniformity.
Active hope is a discipline anchored in collective agency, community, and the present. It starts by recognizing that we live in an unbearable reality, orients itself toward the future we dream of, and affirms that collective action has an impact. It does not promise immediate results, but rather a sustained commitment to the relentless search for possibility.
Active hope is a discipline anchored in collective agency, community, and the present. It starts by recognizing that we live in an unbearable reality, orients itself toward the future we dream of, and affirms that collective action has an impact. It does not promise immediate results, but rather a sustained commitment to the relentless search for possibility.
At Puentes, active hope allows us to compost pain, exhaustion, and uncertainty, transforming them into energy to keep acting. It is a political force that nurtures bonds, strengthens perseverance, and keeps alive the capacity to commit ourselves to building the world we want to inhabit.
Radical imagination is the collective capacity to imagine, explore, and narrate unexpected futures that expand the territory of what is possible. It enables the creation of bold, beautiful, and politically effective narratives—capable of opening new horizons when certainty runs out.
At Puentes, we practice radical imagination to illustrate the world we want to build, identify emerging possibilities, and transform them into narratives that move people to action. We create spaces for exploration where mistakes don’t paralyze but enable: where unexpected associations emerge, where forms of knowledge and language that rarely intersect come together, and where undisciplined collaborations are encouraged to step off script, experiment with formats and metaphors, and create narrative artifacts that embody shared values and make a broader, more desirable, and more compelling future imaginable.
We provide the training and platforms necessary for organizations and activists to come together to change the story.
We connect Latin American organizations and activists with the knowledge, expert teams, and resources they need to build narrative power.
Inspiratorio is a digital learning space that supports changemakers and movements seeking to craft new narratives and build narrative power.
We create platforms alongside organizations and activists, intentionally designed to transform how meaning is built around key social issues.
Through capacity building and connections, we strengthen the narrative power of social justice movements in Latin America.
We are a community of organizations and citizens promoting the well-being of families through human rights.
We are a community of organizations and faith leaders promoting human rights from diverse beliefs and spiritualities.
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We are a sector-wide platform that brings together human rights and gender justice activists across Latin America to sustain shared processes of analysis, meaning-making, and political interpretation of regional dynamics.
At Puentes, we see consciousness of interconnectedness as an integrative opportunity to make sense of the multiple crises we face—and to respond to them collectively. The crises are already connected—even if our agendas are not—because they share structural roots in the model that organizes our societies.
This is not a bug; it’s part of the design. Those who have globalized the infrastructure that sustains the world—finance, technology, supply chains, media—have kept fragmented the very people who could transform it. Reclaiming a shared consciousness of our interconnectedness is not an abstract gesture; it is a political act.
It allows us to see more clearly how issues we often treat separately—democracy, security, migration, digital platforms, decolonization, and racial, social, climate, and gender justice—are deeply intertwined. And, crucially, it helps us recognize that the illusion of separation does not simply limit our understanding; it actively sustains extractive, exclusionary, and domination-based projects.
Between 2025 and 2035, Puentes will work to position interconnectedness as a shared narrative horizon, lens, and practice. Because if hegemonic power has learned to coordinate the infrastructure that organizes the world, our challenge is to coordinate consciousness—and build the kind of power that can transform it.
Our leader combines a passion for justice, politics and communications with more than two decades of driving social change. Her strategic approach and commitment to the global majority have built bridges with movements and activists around the world, making her a source of inspiration for her creativity and audacity.
He is our operations leader, responsible for the organization and care that ensures we have the tools and resources we need to get the job done. His solid background and extensive experience provide us with the processes, structure, and best energy for every project we undertake.
She brings her interdisciplinary experience in socio-cultural studies, communication and digital marketing to our work. Her mix of disciplines facilitates the integration and maintenance of many of the relationships we weave in Puentes, which make possible the collective work we are committed to.
He combines his background in political science with a palpable passion for civic culture, social change and political strategy. His experience and commitment to LGBTIQ+ rights, victims of armed conflict, and security issues enrich our team.
Her training as a communicator and her experience in gender justice, land- territory, and defense of democracy have allowed her to build large communities in the region. She offers vast connections with the Brazilian reality, thinkers of culture, arts, social movements, institutional politics, and NGOs.
Her deep love and understanding of Central American realities allow us to connect with that territory, and her passion for learning and being part of spaces focused on feminist activism and sexual and reproductive rights injects our team with a valuable wealth of knowledge and a unique perspective on each project.
Woman, Afro-Latina, Caribbean and migrant. Artist and consultant in diverse and inclusive communication with an intersectional perspective. She creates, promotes and accompanies initiatives, strategies and contents that positively transform the vision we have of Latin America and the Caribbean. Her passion is to Latinize or Caribbeanize ideas.
It is dedicated to connect and generate alliances between activists, leaders, other social actors and different interest groups around common causes, within the framework of the defense of human rights, democratic principles, diversity and the fight against corruption. She has more than 10 years of experience in the construction of communication strategies and in the relationship of civil society organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean with a view to advocacy in different national and international spaces.
Communicator, digital strategist and anti-racist activist. From Ecuador, Nao brings to the team her expertise in Afro-Latin and Caribbean studies, with six years of experience in NGOs and civil society. She has been activating feminist, Afro-descendant and anti-racist movements for more than a decade. She is founder of La Movida Antirracista and co-founder of ADSEN, a global network of Afro-descendant activists in 50+ countries. She has led digital communication in organizations such as Chicas Poderosas, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, UNFPA and Ipas LAC. Her superpower is to turn communication into a tool for resistance and transformation.
Brazilian, Latina, human rights journalist joins the team to bring her expertise in communications, NGOs and movements that transform realities. Her approach combines feminisms, memory, visual narratives and digital strategies to amplify voices and causes. As a specialist in photography and stories that matter, she collaborates with global change agents to create new ways of telling and seeing the world. She brings her carioca energy and unique ability to work collectively to build better futures for the region.
With 10 years of experience in communications, marketing and social movements, Ef weaves strategy, intention and a dash of chutzpah to ignite ideas, causes and communities. He believes in listening, in tenderness as a radical act and in words as power: how we tell ourselves is how we live.
Non-binary trans woman. Popular educator and multifaceted artist. She brings a critical vision born from her anchorage in the trans, LGBTIQ+ and sex work movements in Colombia. Recognized as an artist and cultural manager in projects that use art and humor as tools to accompany difficult conversations. In her «free» time she writes fiction, is a pianist, tarot reader and mother of two cats.
From its headquarters in the United States, it provides the legal and fiscal infrastructure to develop our projects through the services of:
With 15 years of experience in civic technology, she leads the digital listening lab “Las Lupas Digitales” and sits on the board of Karisma. She co-founded Linterna Verde and was part of the founding team of La Silla Vacía, as well as Knowledge Coordinator at the Global Secretariat of Transparency International.
Communicologist and writer, based in Argentina, with more than 15 years of experience in communication, journalism and research with a gender and human rights perspective in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is co-founder of ‘Ni Una Menos’ and LatFem.org. She currently coordinates the Ícona Initiative. She has published books of poetry, novels, chronicles and essays. She has extensive experience as a digital editor and communications strategist.
Researcher, facilitator and articulator in the field of narratives and social justice. She co-founded Taturana, where she led processes that helped consolidate impact distribution in Brazil. She also supported several Brazilian foundations in strengthening their strategies, based on listening processes with social organizations and leaders. She is an advisory board member of GIPA - Global Impact Producer Alliance, the Toriba Institute and Taturana.
Philosopher, writer and theater director. He accompanies creative and educational processes that explore the role of art in social life and its power to activate transformations. His practice intertwines artistic creation and community work. It integrates theater and live arts, writing, philosophy and education to support collective creation processes. From there, it opens spaces where organizations and communities can narrate and rethink their experiences, strengthening the political imagination and expanding the possibilities for collective action.
She is an international relations professional, performative artist and consultant for organizational development processes. With her experience in research, public management, project coordination and artistic creation, she stands out in the integration of disciplines and knowledge for social transformation.
Venezuelan web designer and multidisciplinary artist. She brings her experience as a designer and webmaster of various Latin American activist projects. She is in charge of the maintenance, reports and updates of the Puentes, Familias Ahora and Inspiratorio websites.
We have an advisory board that oversees our work and provides support for the fulfillment of our mission. It is composed of:
Sindis Meza is a Colombian lawyer whose academic work focuses on historical reparations for Afro-descendant populations for the transatlantic slave trade and on how these processes relate to racial formation, racial stratification in Latin America, and the role of law in such dynamics. She also addresses gender issues within this same field. Currently, she is a doctoral student in African and African American Studies at Harvard University and previously served as a Program Officer in the Office for the Andean Region of the Ford Foundation.
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