Indómitas: Live Podcast with guest Leila Salazar-López
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2020
6pm (PST) Via Facebook Live
Join us for the live monthly podcast, Indómitas, hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring untamable voices of fierce women artists and activists. For the October 2020 podcast, Indómitas will interview Amazon Watch Director Leila Salazar-López.
Indómitas will be available for viewing on Facebook Live. To watch live, simply tune into Brava Facebook Live or Indómitas Facebook Live on Friday, October 2 at 6pm (PST). (The live video will also be accessible via this webpage at the post below.)
Please note that the live podcast will be conducted in Spanish.
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LEILA SALAZAR-LÓPEZ
Leila Salazar-López is a proud Chicana-Latina and passionate defender of Mother Earth, the Amazon, Indigenous rights, and Climate Justice. Since 2015 she has served as the Executive Director of Amazon Watch, leading the organization in its work to protect and defend the bio-cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest by advancing Indigenous peoples' rights, territories, and solutions.
For 20+ years Leila has worked to defend the world’s rainforests, human rights, and the climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns at Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange. She is a Greenpeace Voting Member and a Global Fund for Women Advisor for Latin America. She was recently acknowledged as Make It Better Media’s “17 Bay Area Environmentalists Making a Difference.”
Salazar-López has given keynote addresses at Yale’s International Society of Tropical Forestry Conference 2019; Global Ayahuasca Conference 2019; Bioneers 2019; Rainforest Action Network’s Revel 2019; and a TEDx Berkeley 2020 presentation entitled “Amazon Fires Ignite a Global Movement to Protect the Planet.”
She is a 1998 graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara in Environmental Studies, Political Science and a minor in Global Peace and International Studies. She received an “Outstanding Alumni Award” at the 50 year anniversary of UCSB’s Environmental Studies Department in February 2020.
Salazar-López lives in San Francisco, CA with her husband and two young daughters.
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Orgullosamente chicana-latina; y apasionada defensora de la Madre Tierra, la Amazonía, los derechos indígenas y la Justicia Climática. Desde 2015 se ha desempeñado como Directora Ejecutiva de Amazon Watch, liderando la organización en su trabajo para proteger y defender la integridad biocultural y climática de la selva amazónica mediante el avance de los derechos, territorios y soluciones de los pueblos indígenas.
Durante más de 20 años, Leila ha trabajado para defender las selvas tropicales, los derechos humanos y el clima del mundo a través de la organización de base y campañas de promoción internacional en Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network y Global Exchange. Es miembro con derecho a voto de Greenpeace y asesora del Fondo Mundial para Mujeres para América Latina. Recientemente fue reconocida en Make it Better Media "17 ambientalistas del área de la bahía que marcan la diferencia".
Ha pronunciado discursos de apertura en la Conferencia de la Sociedad Internacional de Silvicultura Tropical de Yale de 2019; Conferencia Global de Ayahuasca 2019; Bioneers 2019; Revel 2019 de Rainforest Action Network; y una presentación de TEDx Berkeley 2020 titulada "Los incendios del Amazonas encienden un movimiento global para proteger el planeta".
Se graduó en 1998 de la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara en Estudios Ambientales, Ciencias Políticas y se especializó en Paz Global y Estudios Internacionales. Recibió un "Premio al alumno destacado" en el 50 aniversario del Departamento de Estudios Ambientales de UCSB en febrero de 2020.
Leila vive en San Francisco, CA con su esposo y dos hijas pequeñas.
ABOUT INDÓMITAS
Indómitas is a live podcast series hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring interviews with fierce women artists and activists
Each month in Brava’s Cabaret,* Indómitas will interview female singers, writers, poets, activists, artists, journalists, filmmakers, and others – some well-known and some deserving to be – for live broadcast. These 60-minute conversations will cover the women’s stories of achievement, pitfalls, and hopes for their futures.
Be ready for open and honest conversations, where intimacy fosters the sharing of joy, fear, acceptance, and ultimately, the strength of women. It’s our time to be the ones who narrate our stories of who we are, what we do, what matters to us and how we organized and stand up for our rights.