Margarita Mora

Margarita Mora is Nia Tero’s Senior Managing Director of Partnerships. She leads the organization’s work in its priority regions and has shaped its approach to building partnerships with Indigenous Peoples and local communities worldwide since its founding. She has dedicated the past 23 years to co-creating and implementing strategies for building equitable relationships between Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and rural farmers with environmental organizations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.

Margarita believes that the ecosystems vital for humanity’s well-being can only thrive if the people who have sustained these places with their intergenerational knowledge also thrive. She is an alumna of the Mulago Foundation’s Conservation Fellowship, a former MIT Media Lab Fellow, and a Heinrich Böll Stiftung alumna.