Luís IZQUIERDO MORA

Luis Guillermo is an Arhuaco Indigenous person, one of the four Indigenous groups of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the department of Cesar, Colombia. He holds a degree in Sociology and a Master's degree in Development Planning from the Universidad Santo Tomas, Bogotá, D.C.
He is currently president of the Global Council of the ICCA Consortium and an active member of the coordinating committee of the ICCA Colombia Network, where he is leading processes related to the Consortium's organizational change in view of the regionalization of this global movement. His work is based on his own learning as Indigenous peoples. Furthermore, his work is characterized by the collective articulation and coordination among the territorial members of his Indigenous group as Consortium work teams in different parts of the world. His organizational and political work has been carried out through the Tayrona Indigenous Confederation (CIT) and the Association of Arhuaco Authorities of the Sierra (ASOCIT).
He has contributed to the recognition of his ancestral territory as an ICCA territory of life. She has participated in the creation of the Colombian ICCA Network; she has actively participated in the construction and implementation of the strategic plans and regulations of the Consortium and the Network in Colombia. She has accompanied and supported the ICCA self-recognition and registration processes of some indigenous communities in Colombia.
In general, through the Consortium, she has been promoting and guiding territorial processes for indigenous, Afro-descendant, and peasant peoples so that they are recognized, strengthened, and defended as territories of life.