Isabel Cavelier

Isabel Cavelier Adarve has long worked in sustainable development and climate change, having had advisory roles on environmental issues at the Colombian Mission to the United Nations in New York and at the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bogotá. She is also a co-founder of Transforma, a prominent Bogota-based environmental think tank, and has more recently turned her energy to the creation of Mondo Comun, an initiative dedicated to seeding a culture of care rooted in interdependence, restoring and nurturing agents of change in their response(ability) to the climate crisis and the global transformation. She is a writer, story-teller and potter, who trained as a lawyer and in socio-cultural studies at the University of Los Andes. She has a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge. She has worked and published in diverse fields such as human rights, racial and gender discrimination, and climate change.