Meet Our Teams

Catalina Farias is a Program Assistant for the Climate and Land Use Alliance’s Global Initiative, based in Uruguay. She supports coordination, operations, and communications that enable collaboration across CLUA’s global teams and partners.

Before joining CLUA, Catalina worked with organizations including Avaaz, Greenpeace, and Top Social, supporting campaigns, grantmaking, and operations across Latin America. At Avaaz, she coordinated operations and financial tracking for a $3 million Amazon Emergency Fund, supporting rapid-response grants for COVID-19 relief in partnership with Indigenous-led organizations. She also supported global team retreats and internal processes related to hiring and communications. Across her career, she has built experience in communications, operations, and stakeholder engagement.

Catalina holds a degree in Journalism, with a specialization in communication and environment, and is currently pursuing a diploma in Gender Studies at FLACSO. A former photojournalist, she continues to explore photography as a hobby and is actively involved in murga and candombe drumming.