Natalia Gomez is coordinator of the Environmental Democracy Programme at Colombian NGO Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad. A lawyer specialising in constitutional law, Natalia has experience working in areas such as access to information, citizen participation and environmental conflict.

Karla Díaz is a researcher at Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad. Karla is trained in political science and sociology and studied human rights and socioenvironmental conflicts. She has experience working with rural and indigenous communities in relation to the defense of their territories, citizen participation, non-violent political action and territorial development.