By Dr. Kaitlyn Patterson (Anishinaabekwe)
By Dr. Kaitlyn Patterson (Anishinaabekwe)
By Reynaldo A. Morales
Indigenous Mbororo Peoples, nomad pastoralists practicing transhumance from time immemorial, remain in a legal limbo, continually displaced under jurisdictional movement in the regions of West and Central Africa. With thousands of deaths related to farmer-herder skirmishes recorded in the past two decades, the realities of climate change and the resulting massive loss of biodiversity exacerbate major security and economic challenges on the ground.
Alison Guzman, Donor Relations Coordinator, manages and cultivates relationships with Cultural Survival´s donors. Originally from Austin, TX of Tejana/Paraguayan descent, she grew up in Latin America and southern Africa and holds a Master’s degree in Ethics and Global Affairs/Indigenous Rights from The American University in Washington D.C. She also earned a Bachelor's degree in International Studies/Multi-Ethnic Studies from the same institution and Museum Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. She began her career in international organizations involved in community development and access to finance initiatives and has over 10 years of experience in nonprofit management and development. Based in southern Chile, since 2013, she has worked alongside Mapuche communities to co-design strategies for sustainability and is learning their language Mapudungun. She also speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Guarani — one of the official languages of Paraguay, where her mother is from. Contact Alison at alison.guzman@culturalsurvival.org.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
