Livi Shandel Gallegos Velázquez

President
Ollin Quetza, A.C.
Mexico City, Puebla and Morelos

Coming from a peasant family in the southeast of the country, I have a degree in Law and a master’s degree in Pedagogy of the Subject and Educational Practice. Founder and president of the Ollin Quetza Civil Association, since 2009; an organization that works on the issue of Environmental Education from an agroecological and feminist methodology. Currently, they have implemented 11 urban gardens in Mexico City. With the main interest of growing pesticide-free food and improving people’s health, reflecting on its importance as an instrument of social transformation. He has promoted the project “Smart Urban Garden”, at the Science Museum of the UNAM; in order to take advantage of the space to generate energy for self-consumption as well as adapt the technology in the urban gardens to make better decisions for growing food. She has also accompanied various groups of rural and indigenous women in a Biosphere Reserve in the State of Puebla, to generate processes of social solidarity economy, as well as defense of the territory and social and solidarity economy with the implementation of community savings groups. From 2011 to date, I have worked as a postulant lawyer in branches of law, such as criminal, family and recently in environmental-agrarian processes in defense of the territory with a gender perspective. She has held public positions both in the judiciary of Mexico City and the National Coordination of Scholarships for Welfare Benito Juárez, as Director of Interinstitutional Management. Advisor to the National Indigenous Movement and the Indigenous Tourism Network of Mexico. He was in charge of the process for the registration of Indigenous Business Unions and Local Communities of various states of the country. She has worked as a cultural manager of groups such as Voz en Punto, which promote popular Mexican music.