Marina Mansilla

24 May 2012

Country of Origin: Argentina
Age: 29
Areas of expertise: eco-entrepreneurship, sustainable development, natural resource management

Marina founded and currently serves as President of Fundación TierraVida and as Program Director for Ashoka’s Youth Venture Southern Cone. Through her work at TierraVida, Marina seeks to inspire, mobilise and support actions that create positive and lasting change, and promote sustainable communities through education, information, and citizen engagement. As part of its work in promoting and creating spaces for youth participation, TierraVida has been leading the Camino a Rio+20 initiative in Latin America, gathering youth organizations and networks from the region to find a common voice and strengthen youth participation at Rio+20. Marina also serves as a facilitator for the Rio+YOU campaign. In addition, for the past four years, she has coordinated Ashoka’s Youth Venture program, supporting and training young social entrepreneurs in the Southern Cone (over 2000+ so far). She is a graduate of King’s College London where she studied Environmental Sciences and earned an MA in Environment and Development.