Segundo Chuquipiondo

Segundo Chuquipiondo

CEFO Comms Officer

Segundo has a bachelor degree in Social Communication from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Peru, and has more than fifteen years of experience working on the design of communication strategies to promote interculturality and advocacy on indigenous rights.

He has been part of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as a consultant, to lead the communications of the "Indigenous Pavilion" for  COP 20 held in Peru in 2014. He was also the national communications director of the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle (AIDESEP), in constant collaboration as the focal point of the Indigenous Coordinator of the Amazon Basin (COICA) until 2021.

Segundo is an Indigenous Shawi man, and in his words, he had the privilege of accessing higher education so that from there he can contribute to the local, national and international Amazonian indigenous movement, creating valuable content based on their own agenda to preserve and defend the territory of his brothers and sisters.