I am a Latina woman working to promote diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and socio-environmental sustainability. My professional journey is based on innovative strategies for natural resource conservation, capacity building, and facilitation of networks that foster sustainable use of natural resources and better quality of life to indigenous people and local communities.
Since 2009, I have worked in tropical forests governance, supporting implementation of socio-environmental public policies. I have experience in fundraising, project management, technical publications, and coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
Areas of interest: mitigation, resilience and adaptation to climate change, forest conservation, protected areas, community participation, gender equity, and integrated fire management.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT ME

“Ana Luiza is a very dedicated, focused and persistent professional. She has a great analytical skill and she is great in dealing with partners, colleagues and other social actors involved in her professional activities. Besides, Ana has good skills to work in a team with creativity in proposing alternatives to the problems encountered.”

 

Marco W. Lentini
Forest Project Manager
WWF-Brazil

“Ana Luiza is a professional committed to social and environmental causes. Her professional involvement goes in the same direction as her commitment to human dignity. Creative, sensitive and visionary, she worries about building strategies to share knowledge and to ensure that everyone around her is contributing to a positive transformation process.”

Elias Santos
Environmental Journalist
Tropical Forest Institute

“Ana Luiza is a person with special abilities to work in teams, especially in the leadership position working with groups of people and organizing workshops and professional meetings. She is a very dedicated professional, motivated, organized and she seems to like challenges. Ana does not intimidate by obstacles, but look for creative and alternative ways to go beyond them.”

Lúcia H. O. Wadt
Forest engineering
Embrapa researcher

“Ana, from her technical knowledge, shares in different languages all the necessary content for raising awareness of Community-Based Forest Management. She articulates the legislation with the local reality, as well as bringing the importance of the forest management in a sustainable-based approach. I realize that Ana differs as a technique, since the feeling of belonging to issues related to sustainable development are mandatory guidelines in her discussions.”

Alcir Borges
Regional Supervisor at EMATER-Pará no Marajó

VIDEO ON THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL OF THE MFCF OBSERVATORY
Community and Family Forest Management

Ana Violato Espada, a researcher at the University of Florida, comments on the importance of academic research for the development of Forestry, Community and Family Management.

Get in touch

anaviolatoespada@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaviolato/

55 19 97143-5868