Throughout history, social justice movements we have fought tirelessly for a transformation legal and political. However, today we know that this is insufficient to transform reality. Beyond the laws, it is the narratives that shape the culture, and it is the invisible power of hegemonic narratives that limits our perception of what is possible, normalizing injustice and inequality.
At this crucial moment for the planet and humanity, we call for a radical act of collective imagination to envision a new horizon.
At Puentes, we work for strengthen the narrative power of social justice movements in Latin America.
Expand connection en es building political infrastructure: the relational and emotional conditions that allow us to diverse efforts converge, reach scale, gain density and be sustained over time. It involves connecting movements, territories, ways of knowing and doing, and diverse audiences around shared horizons, without erasing differences or imposing uniformity.
At Puentes, we work to ensure that no one walks on solitude. We strengthen links that allow recognize problems common, shared values, amplifying narratives beyond familiar bubbles and recognizing ourselves as part of a common “we” more broadly, capable of sustaining the collective action and advance one shared vision of the world.
Active hope is a discipline anchored in the collective agency, community and the present. It is based on the recognition that we are living in a unbearable reality, is oriented towards the future we dream of and affirms that the collective action has an impact. It does not promise immediate results, but it does promise a sustained commitment to the tireless search for possibility.
In Bridges, active hope allows us to compost pain, tiredness and uncertainty, transforming them into energy to continue acting. It is a political force that takes care of the links, strengthens the perseverance y keeps alive the capacity to commit ourselves to the world building we want to inhabit.
Radical imagination is the collective power from imagine, explore and narrate unexpected futures that expand the territory of the possible. It allows the creation of bold, beautiful and politically effective narratives, capable of opening horizons when certainties are exhausted.
At Puentes, we exercise our radical imagination in order to illustrate the world we want to build, to detect emerging possibilities and transform them into stories that mobilize. We create spaces for exploration where the error does not paralyze, but rather enables: there arise unexpected associations, will combine knowledge and languages who rarely engage in dialogue, and are drive undisciplined collaborations that are encouraged to go outside the script, to play with formats and metaphors, and to create narrative artifacts that embody shared values and make imaginable an more comprehensive, desirable and inviting future.
We provide training and platforms necessary so that organizations and activists join together to change history.
We connect to organizations y activists of Latin America with knowledge, expert teams and resources they need to exercise in narrative power.
The Inspiratorio is a digital training space that accompanies the formation of change agents and movements that want to generate new stories and build narrative power.
We create platforms together with organizations y activists, intentionally designed to transform the way in which the address about key issues of social life.
Through the development of capabilities and connections, We strengthen the narrative power of the movements by the social justice at Latin America.
We are a community of organizations and citizens that promote family well-being through human rights.
We are a community of organizations y leaders of faith that promotes human rights from different points of view. beliefs y spiritualities.
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We are a sector platform which brings together activists and gender justice in Latin America to sustain shared processes of human rights and gender justice in Latin America in order to sustain shared processes of analysis, creation of meaning and political reading of the regional dynamics.
At Bridges we have identified the interconnection as a integrative narrative that allows us to understand the multiple crises we are going through and respond to them in a way that is collective. It helps us to see how agendas that are usually approached separately -such as democracy, security, migration, digital platforms, decolonization, and climate and gender justice. are deeply intertwined, and how the illusion of separation projects that are extractivist, exclusionary, and based on the domination.
Between 2025 and 2035, Bridges will work to position the interconnection as a shared narrative horizon, creating the conditions for movements, cultural agents and media the do it own, the adapt and the expand from their contexts and agendas. We are not looking for a single message, but for a common narrative harmony: as in a jazz band, where different actors improvise from their differences, resound each other and move forward together from the same key.
Our leader combines a passion for justice, politics and communications with more than two decades of driving social change. Her strategic approach and commitment to the global majority have built bridges with movements and activists around the world, making her a source of inspiration for her creativity and audacity.
He is our operations leader, responsible for the organization and care that ensures we have the tools and resources we need to get the job done. His solid background and extensive experience provide us with the processes, structure, and best energy for every project we undertake.
She brings her interdisciplinary experience in socio-cultural studies, communication and digital marketing to our work. Her mix of disciplines facilitates the integration and maintenance of many of the relationships we weave in Puentes, which make possible the collective work we are committed to.
He combines his background in political science with a palpable passion for civic culture, social change and political strategy. His experience and commitment to LGBTIQ+ rights, victims of armed conflict, and security issues enrich our team.
Her training as a communicator and her experience in gender justice, land- territory, and defense of democracy have allowed her to build large communities in the region. She offers vast connections with the Brazilian reality, thinkers of culture, arts, social movements, institutional politics, and NGOs.
Her deep love and understanding of Central American realities allow us to connect with that territory, and her passion for learning and being part of spaces focused on feminist activism and sexual and reproductive rights injects our team with a valuable wealth of knowledge and a unique perspective on each project.
Woman, Afro-Latina, Caribbean and migrant. Artist and consultant in diverse and inclusive communication with an intersectional perspective. She creates, promotes and accompanies initiatives, strategies and contents that positively transform the vision we have of Latin America and the Caribbean. Her passion is to Latinize or Caribbeanize ideas.
It is dedicated to connect and generate alliances between activists, leaders, other social actors and different interest groups around common causes, within the framework of the defense of human rights, democratic principles, diversity and the fight against corruption. She has more than 10 years of experience in the construction of communication strategies and in the relationship of civil society organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean with a view to advocacy in different national and international spaces.
Communicator, digital strategist and anti-racist activist. From Ecuador, Nao brings to the team her expertise in Afro-Latin and Caribbean studies, with six years of experience in NGOs and civil society. She has been activating feminist, Afro-descendant and anti-racist movements for more than a decade. She is founder of La Movida Antirracista and co-founder of ADSEN, a global network of Afro-descendant activists in 50+ countries. She has led digital communication in organizations such as Chicas Poderosas, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, UNFPA and Ipas LAC. Her superpower is to turn communication into a tool for resistance and transformation.
Brazilian, Latina, human rights journalist joins the team to bring her expertise in communications, NGOs and movements that transform realities. Her approach combines feminisms, memory, visual narratives and digital strategies to amplify voices and causes. As a specialist in photography and stories that matter, she collaborates with global change agents to create new ways of telling and seeing the world. She brings her carioca energy and unique ability to work collectively to build better futures for the region.
With 10 years of experience in communications, marketing and social movements, Ef weaves strategy, intention and a dash of chutzpah to ignite ideas, causes and communities. He believes in listening, in tenderness as a radical act and in words as power: how we tell ourselves is how we live.
Non-binary trans woman. Popular educator and multifaceted artist. She brings a critical vision born from her anchorage in the trans, LGBTIQ+ and sex work movements in Colombia. Recognized as an artist and cultural manager in projects that use art and humor as tools to accompany difficult conversations. In her «free» time she writes fiction, is a pianist, tarot reader and mother of two cats.
From its headquarters in the United States, it provides the legal and fiscal infrastructure to develop our projects through the services of:
With 15 years of experience in civic technology, she leads the digital listening lab “Las Lupas Digitales” and sits on the board of Karisma. She co-founded Linterna Verde and was part of the founding team of La Silla Vacía, as well as Knowledge Coordinator at the Global Secretariat of Transparency International.
Communicologist and writer, based in Argentina, with more than 15 years of experience in communication, journalism and research with a gender and human rights perspective in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is co-founder of ‘Ni Una Menos’ and LatFem.org. She currently coordinates the Ícona Initiative. She has published books of poetry, novels, chronicles and essays. She has extensive experience as a digital editor and communications strategist.
Researcher, facilitator and articulator in the field of narratives and social justice. She co-founded Taturana, where she led processes that helped consolidate impact distribution in Brazil. She also supported several Brazilian foundations in strengthening their strategies, based on listening processes with social organizations and leaders. She is an advisory board member of GIPA - Global Impact Producer Alliance, the Toriba Institute and Taturana.
Philosopher, writer and theater director. He accompanies creative and educational processes that explore the role of art in social life and its power to activate transformations. His practice intertwines artistic creation and community work. It integrates theater and live arts, writing, philosophy and education to support collective creation processes. From there, it opens spaces where organizations and communities can narrate and rethink their experiences, strengthening the political imagination and expanding the possibilities for collective action.
She is an international relations professional, performative artist and consultant for organizational development processes. With her experience in research, public management, project coordination and artistic creation, she stands out in the integration of disciplines and knowledge for social transformation.
Venezuelan web designer and multidisciplinary artist. She brings her experience as a designer and webmaster of various Latin American activist projects. She is in charge of the maintenance, reports and updates of the Puentes, Familias Ahora and Inspiratorio websites.
We have an Advisory Board that oversees our work and supports the development of our mission. It is composed of:
Sindis Meza is a Colombian lawyer whose academic work focuses on historical reparations for Afro-descendant populations for transatlantic trafficking and how these processes relate to racial formation, racial stratification in Latin America and the role of law in these dynamics. She also addresses gender issues within this same field. She is currently a doctoral student in African and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University and previously served as a Program Officer in the Ford Foundation's Andean Region Office.
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